Elizabethan Mythologies: Studies in Poetry, Drama and Music

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Cambridge University Press, 12.05.1994 - 287 Seiten
For lovers of music and poetry the legendary figure of Orpheus probably suggests a romantic ideal. But for the Renaissance he is essentially a political figure. Mythographers interpreted the Orpheus story as an allegory of the birth of civilization because they recognized in the arts in which Orpheus excelled an instrument of social control so powerful that with it you could, as one writer put it, 'winne Cities and whole Countries'. Dealing with plays, poems, songs and the iconography of musical instruments, Robin Headlam Wells re-examines the myth, central to the Orpheus story, of the transforming power of music and poetry. Elizabethan Mythologies, first published in 1994, contains numerous illustrations from the period and will be of interest to scholars and students of Renaissance poetry, drama and music, and of the history of ideas.

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Introduction I
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Spenser and the politics of music
25
Music as a symbol of profane love Illustration from
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Prospero King James and the myth of the musicianking
63
verbal and musical rhetoric in
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The Great Chain of Being Didacus Valades Rhetorica
90
Medieval ladder of virtue Herrad of Landsberg
98
symbolic geometry in the Renaissance
113
a British shell
143
Philip Rosseter and the Tudor court lyric
169
Dowland Ficino and Elizabethan melancholy
189
love and song in Twelfth Night
208
floreat Orpheus
225
Notes
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Wall decoration from the Alhambra Granada
118
Musica humana Reims Pontifical Ms School of Reims
124

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