Shakespeare & Opera

Shakespeare & Opera
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 418
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Download or read book Shakespeare & Opera written by Gary Schmidgall and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If opera had existed in Elizabethan London, the world's Top Bard, as W.H. Auden called him, might have become the world's Top Librettist. In this illuminating study, Gary Schmidgall ranges widely through the Shakespearean canon and the standard operatic repertory and presents a fascinating comparison of the two, focusing on similarities of expressive style, scenic structure, staging, and performance practice. Schmidgall includes both extended discussions of pertinent general issues and concise essays on the most intriguing Shakespeare-based operas. For all who love the stage, Shakespeare and Opera offers endless insight and fascinaton. Schmidgall's extended comparison of the two dramaturgies offers provocative new insights on Shakespeare, musical theater, comparative drama, and theater history.


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