Author: Isaac Jackman
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Languages : en
Pages : 14
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Hero and Leander. An Operatic Burletta, in Two Acts
Author: Isaac Jackman
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 14
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 14
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The Reception of the Legend of Hero and Leander
Author: Brian Oliver Murdoch
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900440094X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
This book is a study of the literary reception of the originally Greek love-story of Hero and Leander, examining the nature of the tale and demonstrating its longevity and huge popularity from classical times to the present, in a great variety of different genres. Chapters consider the classical versions (Ovid, Musaios, Martial), medieval and renaissance versions in various European languages, folk and literary ballads (and even a pop song), the lyric, dramatic versions, settings to music, burlesques and travesties in all genres, modern reflections of the story in (experimental) literary forms.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900440094X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
This book is a study of the literary reception of the originally Greek love-story of Hero and Leander, examining the nature of the tale and demonstrating its longevity and huge popularity from classical times to the present, in a great variety of different genres. Chapters consider the classical versions (Ovid, Musaios, Martial), medieval and renaissance versions in various European languages, folk and literary ballads (and even a pop song), the lyric, dramatic versions, settings to music, burlesques and travesties in all genres, modern reflections of the story in (experimental) literary forms.
The British Drama
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 838
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 838
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The Eighteenth-century English Burletta
Author: Phyllis T. Dircks
Publisher: English Literary Studies, University of Victoria
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
A study of the genre of the English burletta, which burst upon the London scene in 1764 and flourished for two decades, entertaining its patrons with myth, music and mockery.
Publisher: English Literary Studies, University of Victoria
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
A study of the genre of the English burletta, which burst upon the London scene in 1764 and flourished for two decades, entertaining its patrons with myth, music and mockery.
The British Drama
Author: George Lillo
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 838
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 838
Book Description
The Politics of Romantic Theatricality, 1787-1832
Author: D. Worrall
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230801412
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
This book sets out the political and cultural conditions regulating dramatic writing during an era of censorship and monopolistic royal theatres. Using a range of plays and manuscripts, it argues for the centrality of burletta, the theatrical locus of the attacks on the Cockney school of poetry and the vitality of the metropolitan dramatic scene.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230801412
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
This book sets out the political and cultural conditions regulating dramatic writing during an era of censorship and monopolistic royal theatres. Using a range of plays and manuscripts, it argues for the centrality of burletta, the theatrical locus of the attacks on the Cockney school of poetry and the vitality of the metropolitan dramatic scene.
Catalogue of the Public Library of the City of Fall River
Author: Fall River Public Library
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Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 964
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Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 964
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Catalogue...authors, Titles, Subjects, and Classes
Author: Brooklyn Public Library
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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The new vocal enchantress, containing an elegant selection of the newest songs [&c.].
Author: New vocal enchantress
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Catalogue of the Reference Department
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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