The concept of music in the Shakespearean corpus: an exploration of neoplatonic ideas of music in Shakespeare (1996)
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- Abstract
- Part One surveys the major musical concepts of the English Renaissance and their relationship to the Platonic tradition. The main body of the thesis (Part Two) consists of a systematic presentation of Shakespeare’s ideas on music under the Boethian categories of musica mundana, musica humana, and musica instrumentalis. In Part Three, after tracing Shakespeare’s indebtedness to the Platonic tradition, an attempt to synthesize his ideas on music under major Neoplatonic themes is made. The present thesis comes to the conclusion that the wealth, extent, and use of musical allusions in the Shakespearean Corpus allow the definition of Shakespeare’s concept of music as predominantly Neo-Platonic, and centering on the notion of “harmony.” M.Phil. (by research) thesis, University of Liverpool, 1996.
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| Type of resource | text |
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| Date modified | January 22, 2023; February 15, 2023 |
| Publication date | January 22, 2023 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Chrissochoidis, Ilias |
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Subjects
| Subject | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 |
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| Subject | Neoplatonism in literature |
| Subject | English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan |
| Subject | Music imagery |
| Subject | Musicology > Philosophy |
| Genre | Text |
| Genre | Thesis |
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| DOI | https://doi.org/10.25740/cv130kw8146 |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/cv130kw8146 |
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