Macbeth multiplied : negotiating historical and medial difference between Shakespeare and Verdi /
In what sense did Shakespeare's representation of the Weird Sisters participate in the rewriting of village witchcraft? Was it likely to "encourage the Sword"? Did opera's specific medial conditions offer Verdi special opportunities to justify the presence of stage witches more t...
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| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; New York, N.Y. :
Rodopi,
2005
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| Series: | Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ;
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | In what sense did Shakespeare's representation of the Weird Sisters participate in the rewriting of village witchcraft? Was it likely to "encourage the Sword"? Did opera's specific medial conditions offer Verdi special opportunities to justify the presence of stage witches more than three centuries later? How valid is the parallel between 19th century opera and the voyeurism of madhouse spectacle? Was Shakespeare's play really engaged in the project of exorcizing Queen Elizabeth's cultural memory? What does Verdi's chorus of Scottish refugees have to do with shifting representations of 'the pe. |
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| Item Description: | Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral), Freie Universität Berlin. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (285 pages) : music |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 1423791223 9781423791225 9401202435 9789401202435 |
| ISSN: | 0929-6999 ; |
| Language: | English. |
| Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
| Action Note: | digitized |
