English Dramatick Opera, 1661-1706

ISBN-13: 9780367731076 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 344 str.

Andrew R. Walkling

Opis

English Dramatick Opera, 1661–1706 is the first comprehensive examination of the distinctively English form known as "dramatick opera", which appeared on the London stage in the mid-1670s and lasted until its displacement by Italian through-composed opera in the first decade of the eighteenth century.

Spis treści

1. Machine technology and diegetic supernaturalism on the English public stage, 1661–71 2. "Spectacle-tragedy" and the shifting fortunes of the patent theatres 3. The rise of dramatick opera, 1673–75 4. Responses to dramatick opera, 1674–81 5. Dramatick opera in the 1680s: perversions and palimpsests 6. Dramatick opera in the 1690s and beyond

O autorze

Andrew R. Walkling is Associate Professor of Art History, English, and Theatre at Binghamton University (State University of New York, USA). He received his PhD in British History from Cornell University, and has published widely on court culture and cultural production in Restoration England, and on the music of Henry Purcell.