This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than

Uses the rare depictions of musical instruments and musical sources found on the Eglantine Table to understand the musical life of the Elizabethan age and its c

The period represented by the reigns of Queen Elizabeth I and King James I of England was noteworthy not only for its literature and art but for its music. This

This book offers a survey of how female and male characters in English Renaissance theatre participated and interacted in musical activities, both inside and ou

First published in 1963. When originally published this book was the first to treat at full length the contribution which music makes to Shakespeare's great tra