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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Amsterdam ; New York, N.Y. :
Rodopi,
2005
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| Series: | Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ;
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements; Preliminaries; Introduction; 1. Paltering in multiple senses: witchcraft, gender, madness I; 2. Fantastical creatures: witchcraft, gender, madness II; 3. Restoration and its discontents; 4. Shakespeare, opera, difference; Works cited.
