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Tag Archives: Tudor
A Chest of Viols: A Brief Introduction to English Viol Consort Music
As a cellist and guitarist I have always thought the perfect instrument to be the Viola da Gama, a gut-fretted instrument tuned like a guitar but played like a cello. As with most aficionados my introduction to the instrument came … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Uncategorized
Tagged 15th Century, 16th Century, Britain, Christopher Tye, classical, classical music, Elizabeth I, Elizabethan, England, English history, Fretwork, Henry VIII, John Jenkins, Matthew Locke, music, Orlando Gibbons, Renaissance, Tudor, Viol, Viol Consort, Viola da Gamba, William Byrd, WIlliam Lawes
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The Groundlings of Divine Will
Originally posted on Tears in the Fence:
Daniel Staniforth’s The Groundlings of Divine Will (Skylight Press 2013) http://www.skylightpress.co.uk sees Shakespeare’s first audience, ‘the groundlings of the pit’, as a secret society addressing the Master Of Revels in a glorious riposte…
Posted in British Literature, Literary Criticism, Literature, Recommended reads, Reviews, Uncategorized
Tagged Book Review, British History, British Literature, British poetry, Daniel Staniforth, David Caddy, Elizabethan, English history, experimental literature, History, hybrid literature, Hybrid poetry, poetry, Prose poems, review, Skylight Press, Tears in the Fence, Tudor, William Shakespeare
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