Echo and Meaning on Early Modern English Stages

• Main Author: Anderson, Susan L. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Music and Literature
• Subjects: Literature, Modern.; Theater-History.; Music.; Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.; Theatre History.

This book examines the trope of echo in early modern literature and drama, exploring the musical, sonic, and verbal effects generated by forms of repetition on stage and in print. Focusing on examples where Echo herself appears as a character, this study shows how echoic techniques permeated literar...

Table of Contents:

• 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.