Staging harmony: music and religious change in late medieval and early modern English drama

In 'Staging Harmony', Katherine Steele Brokaw reveals how the relationship between drama, music and religious change across England's long sixteenth century moved religious discourse to more moderate positions.

It did so by reproducing the complex personal attachments, nostalgic overtones and bodily effects that allow performed music to evoke the feeling, if not always the reality, of social harmony.