Reverberating song in Shakespeare and Milton
Subtitle: language, memory, and musical representation
By: Erin Minear
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9781409435457; 9781409435464
Subjects: Music in literature; Language; English language; Memory in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-278) and index.
Table of contents: title: Creeping music : sounds, surfaces, and spheres in The merchant of Venice; title: "We have nonesuch" : the haunting melody; title: "Re-speaking earthly thunder" : Hamlet's sonic phantoms; title: Playing music : Twelfth night and The tempest; title: Warbling fancies : Milton, Shakespeare, and the musical imagination; title: "Serpit agens" : the song of the blest siren; title: "Minims of nature" : describing music in Paradise lost; title: Conclusion. Spirits of another sort, or, Hymning and humming.