Musicking Shakespeare : A Conflict of Theatres / Daniel Albright
2007, 1st edition. Rochester : University of Rochester Press. Very good cloth copy in an equally good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #398734
ISBN: 1580462553
Physical description; (x, 317 p. ) ill., music. Notes; Har bibliografi, innholdsfortegnelse, noter, register. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Romeo and Juliet. Introduction to part 1 ; 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 -- Macbeth. 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 -- A midsummer night's dream. 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. Subjects; Shakespeare, William forfattar 1564-1616. Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 Adaptations History and criticism. Berlioz, Hector 1803-1869. Roméo et Juliette. Verdi, Giuseppe 1813-1901. Macbeth. Britten, Benjamin 1913-1976. Midsummer night's dream. Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 ; Adaptations Histoire et critique. Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 adaptions History and criticism. Purcell, Henry 1659-1695. Fairy queen. Shakespeare, William 1564-1616. Berlioz, Hector 1803-1869. Romeo et Juliette. Britten, Benjamin 1913. 1976 - Operas. Midsummer night's dream. Lampe, John Frederick 1703-1751. Pyramus and Thisbe. Purcell, Henry 1659-1695 - Operas. Fairy Queen. Verdi, Giuseppe 1813-1901 - Operas. Macbeth. Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 ; Adaptations Histoire et critique. Macbeth Schottland, König 1005-1057. Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) Adaptations musicales. Verdi, Giuseppe. Shakespeare, William. Purcell, Henry. Britten, Benjamin. Berlioz, Hector. Shakespeare, William 1564-1616. Verdi, Giuseppe 1813-1901. Macbeth. Britten, Benjamin 1913-1976. Midsummer night's dream. Music and literature. Opera. MUSIC Genres & Styles Opera. Music and theatre. Opera - Production and direction. Shakespeare and music.
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