Echo and Meaning on Early Modern English Stages

by Susan Anderson

Book Overview

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 literary, dramatic, and musical performance in the period, and puts forward echo as a model for engaging with sounds and texts from the past. Starting with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319679694
• ISBN13: 9783319679693
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 123 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"