Broken harmony
Subtitle: Shakespeare and the politics of music
By: Joseph M. Ortiz
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780801449314
Description: The author takes on the important topic of music as a scripted event in Shakespeare's plays. To the philosophical and practical aspects of early modern music he adds a politics of music that gets to the heart of religious controversy in the period between Catholic and Protestant, high church and low church.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Titus Andronicus and the production of musical meaning; title: "Her speech is nothing" : mad speech and the female musician; title: Teaching music : the rule of allegory; title: Impolitic noise : resisting Orpheus from Julius Caesar to The tempest; title: Shakespeare's idolatry : psalms and hornpipes in The winter's tale; title: The reforming of reformation : Milton's A maske.