Author: Publisher:
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Bell's British Theatre: The tender husband, by R. Steele. ... The distrest mother, translated from the Andromaque of Racine by A. Philips
Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
The Rival Sirens
Author: Suzanne AspdenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107067766
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
The tale of the onstage fight between prima donnas Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni is notorious, appearing in music histories to this day, but it is a fiction. Starting from this misunderstanding, The Rival Sirens suggests that the rivalry fostered between the singers in 1720s London was in large part a social construction, one conditioned by local theatrical context and audience expectations, and heightened by manipulations of plot and music. This book offers readings of operas by Handel and Bononcini as performance events, inflected by the audience's perceptions of singer persona and contemporary theatrical and cultural contexts. Through examining the case of these two women, Suzanne Aspden demonstrates that the personae of star performers, as well as their voices, were of crucial importance in determining the shape of an opera during the early part of the eighteenth century.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama
Author: E. Cobham BrewerPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734093228
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama by E. Cobham Brewer
The Lives of the English Poets
Author: The Spectator; Volume 1
Author: Richard SteelePublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781016396493
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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The Sir Roger de Coverley papers, selected from the Spectator
Author: Joseph AddisonCuriosities of Literature
Author: Isaac DisraeliPublisher:
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Romantic Love and Personal Beauty
Author: Henry T. FinckPublisher:
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Category : Beauty, Personal
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Author: John Dryden