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  • The Gendering of the Lute in Sixteenth-Century French Love Poetry*

  • Carla Zecher
  • Journal:
    Renaissance Quarterly / Volume 53 / Issue 3 / Autumn 2000
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    20 November 2018, pp. 769-791
    Print publication:
    Autumn 2000

  • Blame not my lute for he must sound Of this or that as liketh me.

    Sir Thomas Wyatt

    Lute-poems came into vogue in France in the 1540s and 1550s. Because of the lute's shape, it could be gendered either as masculine or feminine; male and female poets therefore made use of lute imagery in different ways. Their references to the lute are informed by the gendered culture surrounding the instrument in this period and by the etiquette and technicalities of lute playing. Even more than painters and engravers, poets could invest the lute with human qualities, conflating it with bodies and body parts. It could thus be adapted to serve a variety of amorous scenarios.