Dr. Katrine Wong from the University of Macau (UM) Department\nof English has won high praise for her recent book Music and Gender in\nEnglish Renaissance Drama<\/i> (New York: Routledge, 2013). This ground-breaking\nstudy explores the ways in which the music and song used in a wide variety of\nplays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries expressed the social roles\nperformed by women and men. A review in the prestigious journal, Renaissance\nQuarterly<\/i>, states that Dr. Wong’s study \u201csubstantively adds to the\nunderstanding not just of early modern songs, but of Renaissance drama overall\u201d\nand that it is \u201ca particularly valuable addition to the study of Renaissance\nliterature\u201d.<\/p>\n\n
The negotiation between the dichotomous qualities with which\nmusic in Renaissance theatre is associated \u2013 the heavenly and the demonic \u2013\nfinds extensive application in recent studies of music in early modern English\nplays. However, although ideological dualities identified in music in\ntraditional Renaissance thinking may seem unequivocal, various musical\nrepresentation of characters and situations in Renaissance drama would prove\notherwise. Through a survey of how non-Shakespearean male and female characters\nparticipated and interacted in musical activities both inside and outside the\ncontemporary societal decorum, Music and\nGender in English Renaissance Drama<\/i> explores how playwrights at the time\nboth conformed to and challenged conventional beliefs about music practice for\neach gender. The examination of music-making men, in particular, will open up\nan exciting discourse in the field of early modern masculinity. This book will\nbroaden the reader\u2019s understanding of the general theatrical representation of\nmusic, as well as complicate the current discussion of musical portrayal and\nconstruction of gender in English Renaissance drama.<\/p>\n\n
Dr.\nWong is currently assistant professor of English literature and director of the\nUniversity Shakespeare Team at UM. She was awarded a Sir Edward Youde Memorial\nFellowship in 2004 and received her PhD from the University of Leeds in 2008. She\nis co-editor of Macao \u2013 Cultural\nInteraction and Literary Representations<\/i> (Oxford: Routledge, 2014), to\nwhich she wrote the introduction.<\/p>
Dr.\nWong is also a classically trained pianist and operatic soprano, holding\nprofessional qualifications of FTCL (Solo Piano) and LTCL (Voice Performance)\nfrom Trinity College London.
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