Andrew R. Walkling

English Dramatick Opera, 1661-1706 (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315524191
• Artikelnr.: 56389693

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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