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Author Ortiz, Joseph M., 1972- author

Title Broken harmony : Shakespeare and the politics of music / Joseph M. Ortiz
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 261 pages) : illustrations
Contents Titus Andronicus and the production of musical meaning -- "Her speech is nothing" : mad speech and the female musician -- Teaching music : the rule of allegory -- Impolitic noise : resisting Orpheus from Julius Caesar to The tempest -- Shakespeare's idolatry : psalms and hornpipes in The winter's tale -- The reforming of reformation : Milton's A maske
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Music
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
SUBJECT Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Music
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- analys och tolkning. sao
Subject Music in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
Music
Music in literature
Muziek.
Musik i litteraturen.
Genre/Form Electronic book
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010035502
ISBN 9780801460920
0801460921