{"product_id":"elizabethan-mythologies-studies-in-poetry-drama-and-music-hardback-9780521433853","title":"Elizabethan Mythologies; Studies in Poetry, Drama and Music (Hardback) 9780521433853","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eElizabethan Mythologies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eStudies in Poetry, Drama and Music\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRobin Headlam Wells re-examines the myth, central to the Orpheus story, in this 1994 book.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRobin Headlam Wells (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521433853, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 12 May 1994\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e306 pages, 41 b\/w illus.  8 music examples\u003cbr\u003e23.4 x 15.6 x 1.9 cm, 0.61 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'… a slim but dense volume that covers a lot of ground in a thoughtful and thought-provoking manner. Having these essays collected into a single volume together with 41 black-and-white illustrations on high-quality trade paper is a real plus, and the organization into three sections makes dipping in easy enough.' The Lute\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eFor 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I: Music, Myth and Politics: 1. Spenser and the politics of music\u003cbr\u003e 2. Falstaff, Prince Hal and the New Song\u003cbr\u003e 3. Prospero, King James and the myth of the musician-king\u003cbr\u003e Part II: Defining the Essential: A Humanist Iconography: 4. The ladder of love: verbal and musical rhetoric in the Elizabethan lute song\u003cbr\u003e 5. Microcosmos: symbolic geometry in the Renaissance lute rose\u003cbr\u003e 6. The orpharion: 'a British shell'\u003cbr\u003e Part III. The Game of Love: 7. Ars amatoria: Philip Rosseter and the Tudor court lyric\u003cbr\u003e 8. Dowland, Ficino and Elizabethan melancholy\u003cbr\u003e 9. 'Ydle shallowe things': love and song in Twelfth Night\u003cbr\u003e Coda: floreat Orpheus\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Medieval \u0026amp; Renaissance music [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Medieval \u0026amp; Renaissance music\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Medieval%20\u0026amp;%20Renaissance%20music%20%5Bc%201000%20to%20c%201600%5D%20%5BAVGC2%5D%22\"\u003ec 1000 to c 1600 AVGC2\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46007288824088,"sku":"9780521433853","price":49.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521433853i_1cab7376-5a04-4676-9c64-e11c66b8172d.jpg?v=1691381784","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/elizabethan-mythologies-studies-in-poetry-drama-and-music-hardback-9780521433853","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}