Musicking Shakespeare - A Conflict of Theatres

Shakespeares favorite dramatic device is to juxtapose two kinds of theatres within a single play, such as the formal masque and the loose Elizabethan stage. The four composers studied here respond to this aspect of Shakespeares art by going beyond the comfort zone of the operatic medium. The music dramas they devise call opera into question. Daniel Albright is the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University.

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Daniel ALbright is Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature, Harvard University

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• Authors: Daniel Albright
• Publisher: University Of Rochester Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2007
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 237 mm x 32 mm
• Weight: 674 g
• Series: Eastman Studies in Music
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies