362 Pages
by
Routledge
362 Pages
29 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
362 Pages
29 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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. Andrew Walkling argues that, while the musical elements of this form are crucial to its... Read more
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
Biography
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.
