Gender and Song in Early Modern England

236 Pages·2014·2.149 MB·English

by  Leslie C. Dunn, Katherine R. Larson

Gender and SonG in
early Modern enGland
Women and Gender in the
early Modern World
Series Editors:
allyson Poska, The University of Mary Washington, USa
abby Zanger
The study of women and gender offers some of the most vital and innovative
challenges to current scholarship on the early modern period. For more than a
decade now, “Women and Gender in the early Modern World” has served
as a forum for presenting fresh ideas and original approaches to the field.
interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary in scope, this ashgate book series
strives to reach beyond geographical limitations to explore the experiences of
early modern women and the nature of gender in europe, the americas, asia,
and africa. We welcome proposals for both single-author volumes and edited
collections which expand and develop this continually evolving field of study.
Titles in the series include:
Romancing the Self in Early Modern Englishwomen’s Life Writing
Julie a. eckerle
Learning and Literacy in Female Hands, 1520–1698
elizabeth Mazzola
Staging Women and the Soul-Body Dynamic in Early Modern England
Sarah e. Johnson
Musical Voices of Early Modern Women
Many-Headed Melodies
edited by Thomasin laMay
English Women, Religion, and Textual Production, 1500–1625
edited by Micheline White
Gender and Early Modern Constructions of Childhood
edited by naomi J. Miller and naomi yavneh
Gender and Song in
early Modern england
edited by
leSlie C. dUnn
Vassar College, USA
and
KaTherine r. larSon
University of Toronto, Canada
© leslie C. dunn, Katherine r. larson, and contributors 2014
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Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editors of this work.
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
Gender and song in early modern england / edited by leslie C. dunn and Katherine r.
larson.
pages cm.—(Women and Gender in the early Modern World)
includes bibliographical references and index.
iSBn 978-1-4724-4341-0 (hardcover : alk. paper)—iSBn 978-1-4724-4342-7 (ebook)—
iSBn 978-1-4724-4343-4 (epub)
1. english drama—early modern and elizabethan, 1500–1600—history and criticism.
2. english drama—17th century—history and criticism. 3. Sex role in literature. 4. Gender
identity in literature. 5. Poetics—history—16th century. 6. Poetics—history—17th
century. 7. drama—Social aspects—england—history—16th century. 8. drama—Social
aspects—england—history—17th century. i. dunn, leslie C., editor. ii. larson, Katherine
rebecca, editor.
Pr658.S42G46 2014
822’.309353—dc23
2014017402
iSBn: 9781472443410 (hbk)
iSBn: 9781472443427 (ebk – PdF)
iSBn: 9781472443434 (ebk – ePUB)
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In memory of Winn Voigts and Betty Dunn, who inspired us as women, as
scholars, and as musicians.
Jan (Johannes) Vermeer, The Concert, 72.5 x 64.7 cm, oil on canvas, c. 1665 /
© isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Ma, USa / The Bridgeman art
library
Contents
List of Figures and Musical Examples ix
Note on the Text xi
Notes on Contributors xiii
Acknowledgments xv
introduction 1
Leslie C. Dunn and Katherine R. Larson
1 Performing Women in english Books of ayres 15
Scott A. Trudell
2 Witches, lamenting Women, and Cautionary Tales: Tracing
“The ladies Fall” in early Modern english Broadside Balladry
and Popular Song 31
Sarah F. Williams
3 listening to Black Magic Women: The early Modern Soundscapes of
Witch drama and the new World 47
Jennifer Linhart Wood
4 “Better a Witty Fool Than a Foolish Wit”: Song, Fooling, and
intellectual disability in Shakespearean drama 63
Angela Heetderks
5 dangerous Performance: Cupid in early Modern Pedagogical Masques 77
Amanda Eubanks Winkler
6 Making Music Fit for Kings: reforming and Gendering Music in
Samuel rowley’s When You See Me, You Know Me 93
Joseph M. Ortiz
7 Unimportant Women: The “Sweet descants” of Mary Sidney and
richard Crashaw 107
Tessie L. Prakas
8 domestic Song and the Circulation of Masculine Social energy in
early Modern england 123
Linda Phyllis Austern
9 Song, Political resistance, and Masculinity in Thomas heywood’s
The Rape of Lucrece 139
Nora L. Corrigan
viii Gender and Song in Early Modern England
10 Music for Helen: The Fitful Changes of Troilus and Cressida 153
Erin Minear
11 The Use of Early Modern Music in Film Scoring for Elizabeth I 169
Kendra Preston Leonard
Select Bibliography 185
Index 209
list of Figures and Musical examples
Figures
1.1 example of table book layout: Thomas Campion’s “So many
loves have i neglected.” Thomas Campion, Two Bookes of Ayres
(london, 1613), sig. l2v. This item is reproduced by permission
of the huntington library, San Marino, California. 19
2.1 A Lamentable Ballad of the Ladies Fall (1658–1664?).
euing Ballads 196. © Glasgow University library,
Special Collections. reproduced with permission. 32
3.1 Theodor de Bry’s engraving XViii, “Their danses which they
use att their hyghe feastes.” Thomas harriot, A briefe and
true report of the new found land of Virginia (london, 1590; 1871
facsimile). This item is reproduced by permission of
the huntington library, San Marino, California. 55
5.1 “love, a Musician.” George Wither, A Collection of Emblemes,
Ancient and Moderne (london, 1635), 82. This item is
reproduced by permission of the huntington library,
San Marino, California. 81
5.2 “Castità.” Cesare ripa, Iconologia (Padua, 1611), 74.
hamilton College, Burke library, Special Collections. 83
5.3 anthony Van dyck, Cupid and Psyche, 200.2 x 192.6 cm,
oil on canvas, 1639–40. royal Collection Trust /
© her Majesty Queen elizabeth ii, 2014. 87
Examples
2.1 The first stanza of text from A Lamentable Ballad of the Ladies
Fall set to a modern transcription of “The ladies Fall.” 36