Musicking Shakespeare : a conflict of theatres / Daniel Albright.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Albright, Daniel, 1945-2015.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Eastman studies in music 1071-9989

Eastman studies in music, 1071-9989

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Adaptations--History and criticism.

Shakespeare, William.

Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869. Roméo et Juliette.

Berlioz, Hector.

Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901. Macbeth.

Verdi, Giuseppe.

Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Midsummer night's dream.

Britten, Benjamin.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Music and literature.

Opera.

Genre:

Adaptations.

Physical Description:

x, 317 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Rochester : University of Rochester Press, 2007.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [307]-310) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781580462556

1580462553

OCLC:

85862327