Deborah W Rooke

Handel's Israelite Oratorio Libretti

Sacred Drama and Biblical Exegesis

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Produktbeschreibung

Combining the insights of present-day biblical studies with those of Handelian studies, this book examines the libretti of ten of Handel's Israelite oratorios and evaluates the relationship between each libretto and the biblical story on which it is based.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 598g
• ISBN-13: 9780199279289
• ISBN-10: 0199279284
• Artikelnr.: 34157503

Inhaltsangabe

* Introit
* 1: To Laugh or not to Laugh: the Question of Esther
* 2: A Gender Agenda: Deborah in Holy Writ and Handel
* 3: Jezebel, Joash and Jesus Christ: Aspects of Athalia
* 4: Saul: Tragedy, Treachery, and Theology
* 5: From Wild Man to War Hero: The Story of Samson
* 6: Joseph: saint or sinner? Italian Opera, Handelian Oratorio, and
Eighteenth-century Commentaries
* 7: Judas Macchabaeus: Justifying the 1745 Anti-Jacobite Campaign
* 8: Solomon and his Women: A Handelian Triptych
* 9: Susanna: A Marriage Made in Heaven
* 10: Sex and Death, or the Death of Sex: The Fate of Jephthah's
Daughter
* Postlude
* Bibliography