This book surveys the most significant published materials relating to William Byrd. It presents a collection of all-new original essays covering everything from feminist to postcolonial readings of his play as well as source queries and analysis of historical performances of the play.
In The World of William Byrd John Harley builds on his previous work, William Byrd: Gentleman of the Chapel Royal (Ashgate, 1997), in order to place the composer more clearly in his social context.
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In this, the first of a three-volume study of Byrd's complete output, under the general title The Music of William Byrd, the author essays a first full-scale historical and critical assessment of Byrd's sacred music to Latin words - one of ...
The record of his life thereafter, its growing e√ectiveness and indeed fruitfulness, may derive as much from his ... and Life; Margaret Beck Pritchard and Virginia Lascara Sites, William Byrd II and His Lost History: Engravings of the ...
These books are witnesses to the events in which two men assembled their culture, literally enacted or embodied it in these books of themselves, on the issue of gender. The books are simultaneously confessionals.
William Byrd, a Guide to Research
The Diary, and Life, of William Byrd II of Virginia, 1674-1744
For example , " q " marked the highland area where Byrd explored plant and animal life while waiting for all of the commissioners to convene , and “ o ” designated the road to John Heath's house where the surveying party camped one ...
William Byrd II (1674-1744) was an important figure in the history of colonial Virginia: a founder of Richmond, an active participant in Virginia politics, and the proprietor of one of the colony's greatest plantations.
The infludence of misogyny in British America was pervasive; as Kathleen Brown explains, “Traditions saanctioning ... See also Terri L. Snyder, Brabbling Women:Disorderly Speech and the Law in Early Virginia (Ithaca, N.Y., 2003); Brown, ...