Echo and Meaning on Early Modern English Stages

Analyzes music's importance in theatrical performance Synthesizes the approaches of music studies and sound studies

Examines the complex interactions between sound, meaning, and historical context

Analyzes music's importance in theatrical performance Synthesizes the approaches of music studies and sound studies Examines the complex interactions between sound, meaning, and historical context Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Susan L. Anderson is Principal Lecturer in English at Sheffield Hallam University. She has published widely on on interdisciplinary approaches to a range of early modern performance genres. Her research also examines disability and representations of difference in Shakespearean drama. She is a trustee of the British Shakespeare Association.

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1 Introduction: Echo and Meaning.- 2 Sounds and Precedent in Elizabethan Progress Entertainments.- 3 Echo and Drama: Cynthia's Revels (1601).- 4 Echo, Dance, and Song in Jacobean Masques.- 5 Conclusion: Disenchanted Echoes in The Duchess of Malfi and The Countess of Montgomery's Urania.