Gender and Song in Early Modern England

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Contents: Introduction, Leslie C. Dunn and Katherine R. Larson Performing women in English books of Ayres, Scott A. Trudell Witches, lamenting women, and cautionary tales: tracing 'The Ladies Fall' in early modern English broadside balladry and popular song, Sarah F. Williams Listening to black magic women: the early modern soundscapes of witch drama and the New World, Jennifer Linhart Wood 'Better a witty fool than a foolish wit': song, fooling, and intellectual disability in Shakespearean drama, Angela Heetderks Dangerous performance: Cupid in early modern pedagogical masques, Amanda Eubanks Winkler Making music fit for kings: reforming and gendering music in Samuel Rowley's When You See Me, You Know Me, Joseph M. Ortiz Unimportant women: the 'sweet descants' of Mary Sidney and Richard Crashaw, Tessie L. Prakas Domestic song and the circulation of masculine social energy in early modern England, Linda Phyllis Austern Song, political resistance, and masculinity in Thomas Heywood's The Rape of Lucrece, Nora L. Corrigan Music for Helen: the fitful changes of Troilus and Cressida, Erin Minear The use of early modern music in film scoring for Elizabeth I, Kendra Preston Leonard Select bibliography Index.

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