List of illustrations
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I: Music, Myth and Politics: 1. Spenser and the politics of music
2. Falstaff, Prince Hal and the New Song
3. Prospero, King James and the myth of the musician-king
Part II: Defining the Essential: A Humanist Iconography: 4. The ladder of love: verbal and musical rhetoric in the Elizabethan lute song
5. Microcosmos: symbolic geometry in the Renaissance lute rose
6. The orpharion: 'a British shell'
Part III. The Game of Love: 7. Ars amatoria: Philip Rosseter and the Tudor court lyric
8. Dowland, Ficino and Elizabethan melancholy
9. 'Ydle shallowe things': love and song in Twelfth Night
Coda: floreat Orpheus
Notes
Index.
