Gender and Song in Early Modern England

Leslie C. Dunn is Associate Professor of English at Vassar College, USA. Katherine R. Larson is Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto, Canada.

• Introduction, Leslie C.Dunn, Katherine R.Larson; Chapter 1 Performing Women in English Books of Ayres, Scott A.Trudell; Chapter 2 Witches, Lamenting Women, and Cautionary Tales, Sarah F.Williams; Chapter 3 Listening to Black Magic Women, JenniferLinhart Wood; Chapter 4 “Better a Witty Fool Than a Foolish Wit”, AngelaHeetderks; Chapter 5 Dangerous Performance, AmandaEubanks Winkler; Chapter 6 Making Music Fit for Kings, Joseph M.Ortiz; Chapter 7 Unimportant Women, Tessie L.Prakas; Chapter 8 Domestic Song and the Circulation of Masculine Social Energy in Early Modern England, Linda PhyllisAustern; Chapter 9 Song, Political Resistance, and Masculinity in Thomas Heywood’s The Rape of Lucrece, Nora L.Corrigan; Chapter 10 Music for Helen, ErinMinear; Chapter 11 The Use of Early Modern Music in Film Scoring for Elizabeth I, KendraPreston Leonard;

Leslie Dunn and Katherine Larson have assembled a most interesting volume that approaches the topic of song in early modern England through a unique interdisciplinary lens that crosses an expanse of time and space. Its wide-ranging perspective, made possible by the contributions from scholars in several different fields, makes for an articulate and important contribution to the scholarship in all the areas it touches: gender and cultural studies, musicology, and early modern literature and language. -Candace Bailey, North Carolina Central University, USA