Musicking Shakespeare
A Conflict of Theatres
1st Edition
Published on 1. July 2007
332 pages
978-1-58046-692-9 (ISBN)
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Demonstrates how Purcell, Berlioz, Verdi, and Britten, responding to Shakespeare's juxtaposition of contrasting theatrical styles, devised music dramas that call opera into question.
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University of Rochester Press
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Albright Daniel:
Daniel ALbright is Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature, Harvard University
Daniel ALbright is Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature, Harvard University
Content
The Veronese Social Code
The Code of Love
Love against Language
The Afterlife of Romeo and Juliet
La lance branlée: French Opinions of Shakespeare
Berlioz in the Plural
Roméo et Juliette: Introduction
Roméo et Juliette: The Symphony
Roméo et Juliette: The Opera Resumes
Shakespeare's Random
Magic as Theft
Prophesying
Squinting at Consequences
Macbeth's Children
Macbeth as an Actor
Two Theatres
Witches Amok
Sortileges of Speech
Lady Macbeth as Witch
Time Slips
La Sonnambula
Cosmicomedy
The Picture of Cupid
Depictorializing Cupid
Cupid's Wax
The Tedious Brief Scene
Other Dreams in Other Summers: The Aesthetic of the Masque
Purcell's The Fairy Queen
Lampe's Pyramus and Thisbe
Experimenters: Mendelssohn and Korngold
Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Code of Love
Love against Language
The Afterlife of Romeo and Juliet
La lance branlée: French Opinions of Shakespeare
Berlioz in the Plural
Roméo et Juliette: Introduction
Roméo et Juliette: The Symphony
Roméo et Juliette: The Opera Resumes
Shakespeare's Random
Magic as Theft
Prophesying
Squinting at Consequences
Macbeth's Children
Macbeth as an Actor
Two Theatres
Witches Amok
Sortileges of Speech
Lady Macbeth as Witch
Time Slips
La Sonnambula
Cosmicomedy
The Picture of Cupid
Depictorializing Cupid
Cupid's Wax
The Tedious Brief Scene
Other Dreams in Other Summers: The Aesthetic of the Masque
Purcell's The Fairy Queen
Lampe's Pyramus and Thisbe
Experimenters: Mendelssohn and Korngold
Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream
