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Since the nineteenth century, some of the most influential historians have portrayed opera and tragedy as wholly distinct cultural phenomena. These historians h

The Oxford Handbook of Restoration Literature begins by asking if there was a distinctive literature of the Restoration. For a long time, the answer seemed obvi

A wide-ranging account of opera on stage and in society in the age of Rousseau, from Rameau to Gluck.

This book explores how the Enlightenment aesthetics of theater as a moral institution influenced cultural politics and operatic developments in Vienna between t

Reproduction of the original: Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama by E. Cobham Brewer