Table of Contents

Introduction - Rebecca Herissone
'Big with New Events and some Unheard Success': Absolutism and Creativity at the Restoration Court - Andrew R. Walkling
Creativity on Several Occasions - James A. Winn
Author, Musician, Composer: Creator? Figuring Musical Creativity in Print at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century - Kirsten Gibson
Published Musical Variants and Creativity: An Overview of John Playford's Role as Editor - Stephanie Carter
Space, Text and Creativity in the Late Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - Raphael Hallett
The 'Artificial Sceane': The Re-creation of Italian Architecture in John Evelyn's Diary - Anne Hultzsch
Telling what is Told: Originality and Repetition in Rubens's English Works - Marina Daiman
Plagiarism at the Academy of Ancient Music: A Case Study in Authorship, Style and Judgement - Stephen Rose
A meeting of Amateur and Professional: Playford's 'Compendious' Collection of Two-Part Airs, Court-Ayres (1655) - John Cunningham
'Creating' Cato in Early Seventeenth-Century England - Freyja Cox Jensen
'Our Friend Venus Performed to a Miracle': Anne Bracegirdle, John Eccles and Creativity - Amanda Eubanks Winkler
Music and Manly Wit in Seventeenth-Century England - Linda Phyllis Austern

About the Author

KIRSTEN GIBSON is Senior Lecturer and Head of Music at Newcastle University. STEPHANIE CARTER is a music historian and archivist. JOHN CUNNINGHAM is a Reader and Director of Research at the School of Music and Media, Bangor University.

Reviews

The volume's interdisciplinary approach, contextualizing concepts of creativity across the cultural milieu of seventeenth-century England, is one of its strengths.
*RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY*

Will be of enormous help to anyone wishing to understand more about 17th-century culture in general; and the high quality of the chapters will ensure a long life as a standard reference source and as a stimulant for future research.
*EARLY MUSIC*