This is the first book to systematically analyze the role the performing arts played in English schools after the Reformation. Amanda Eubanks Winkler deploys an innovative methodology to understand school-based performance that combines rigorous archival research with phenomenological and performance studies approaches.
Music for Witches, the Melancholic, and the Mad on the Seventeenth-Century English Stage
By analyzing theater music, Winkler explores how it reflects and challenges various social histories, including political, religious, gender, and social ideologies. The book reveals how music not only reinforces but also contests conservative narratives, highlighting its role as a powerful medium in shaping societal perspectives.