Author: Pierre Augustin Caron de BeaumarchaisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
The Barber of Seville, a Comic Opera, in Two Acts
Author: Pierre Augustin Caron de BeaumarchaisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
The Barber of Seville
Author: The Figaro Trilogy
Author: Pierre-Augustin Caron de BeaumarchaisPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191604569
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The Barber of Seville * The Marriage of Figaro * The Guilty Mother Eighteenth-century France produced only one truly international theatre star, Beaumarchais, and only one name, Figaro, to put with Don Quixote or D'Artagnan in the ranks of popular myth. But who was Figaro? Not the impertinent valet of the operas of Mozart or Rossini, but both the spirit of resistance to oppression and a bourgeois individualist like his creator. The three plays in which he plots and schemes chronicle the slide of the ancien régime into revolution but also chart the growth of Beaumarchais' humanitarianism. They are also exuberant theatrical entertainments, masterpieces of skill, invention, and social satire which helped shape the direction of French theatre for a hundred years. This lively new translation catches all the zest and energy of the most famous valet in French literature. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
A Manual of Music
Author: Wilbur M. DerthickPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
The Victor Book of the Opera
Author: Samuel Holland RousPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Opera
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
The Complete Opera Book
Author: Gustave KobbéPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 1048
Book Description
PASSION WEEK!
Author: MR. BARTLEYPoisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders
Author: Don HerzogPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069122837X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
Conservatism was born as an anguished attack on democracy. So argues Don Herzog in this arrestingly detailed exploration of England's responses to the French Revolution. Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders ushers the reader into the politically lurid world of Regency England. Deftly weaving social and intellectual history, Herzog brings to life the social practices of the Enlightenment. In circulating libraries and Sunday schools, deferential subjects developed an avid taste for reading; in coffeehouses, alehouses, and debating societies, they boldly dared to argue about politics. Such conservatives as Edmund Burke gaped with horror, fearing that what radicals applauded as the rise of rationality was really popular stupidity or worse. Subjects, insisted conservatives, ought to defer to tradition--and be comforted by illusions. Urging that abstract political theories are manifest in everyday life, Herzog unflinchingly explores the unsavory emotions that maintained and threatened social hierarchy. Conservatives dished out an unrelenting diet of contempt. But Herzog refuses to pretend that the day's radicals were saints. Radicals, he shows, invested in contempt as enthusiastically as did conservatives. Hairdressers became newly contemptible, even a cultural obsession. Women, workers, Jews, and blacks were all abused by their presumed superiors. Yet some of the lowly subjects Burke had the temerity to brand a swinish multitude fought back. How were England's humble subjects transformed into proud citizens? And just how successful was the transformation? At once history and political theory, absorbing and disquieting, Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders challenges our own commitments to and anxieties about democracy.
Music News
Author: The Victrola Book of the Opera
Author: Samuel Holland RousPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description