Music in English Renaissance Drama - Paperback

by John H. Long (Editor)

Nowhere is the richness and variety of the English Renaissance better shown than in the dramatic works of the period which combined to an unusual degree the arts of poetry, music, acting, and dance. This collection of essays by a number of distinguished scholars offers a series of views of the music of this drama-ranging from the mystery cycles still performed in the late sixteenth century to the cavalier drama of the early seventeenth. The essays included here are mainly concerned with the min

Author Biography

John H. Long is professor of English at Greensboro College, North Carolina.