Part 1: A Period and Style 1. Riding the Audience 2. New Forms 3. Music and Spectacle 4. The Tempest, or The Enchanted Island. Part 2: Fools and Heroes 5. Building a Character 6. Almanzor and Almahide, or The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards 7. The Country Wife Part 3: The Market for Feeling 8. Changing Times 9. Venice Preserv’d, or A Plot Discover’d 10. The Way of the World.
Biography
Jocelyn Powell (1938–1986) was Director and Head of the Department of Drama and Theatre Arts at the University of Birmingham. He was Director of operatic productions for the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, where his work placed particular empahsis on performances of rare seventeenth- and eighteenth-century opera.
