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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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Clausen, Christoph
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York, N.Y. : Rodopi, 2005.
Colección:Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 93.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Notas:Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral), Freie Universität Berlin.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (285 pages) : music
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:1423791223
9781423791225
9401202435
9789401202435
ISSN:0929-6999 ;