British Theatre and the Other Arts, 1660-1800Shirley Strum Kenny Fifteen outstanding scholars of theater, music, art, and literature explore the interrelations of eighteenth-century British theater and the various art forms that it incorporated into itself. The essays examine the theater's increasing reliance on set designers, costumers, musicians and composers, poets, dramatists, and librettists, focusing on the ways in which this dependence fundamentally changed the theater. Illustrated. |
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Preface | 9 |
The Multimedia Spectacular on the Restoration Stage | 41 |
Opera in London 16951706 | 67 |
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