Music and sexuality in Britten [electronic resource] : selecte d essays / Philip Brett ; edited by George E. Haggerty ; with an int roduction by Susan McClary and an afterword by Jenny Doctor.
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TextSeries: ACLS Humanities E-BookPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.Description: xiv, 280 p. ; 23 cmSubject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleOnline resources: Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
Britten and Grimes -- "Grimes is at his exercise" : sex, politics, a nd violence in the librettos of Peter Grimes -- Grimes and Lucretia -- Salvation at sea : Britten's Billy Budd -- Character and caricature in Albert Herring -- Britten's bad boys : male relations in The turn of th e screw -- Britten's dream -- Eros and orientalism in Britten's operas -- Keeping the straight line intact? Britten's relation to folksong, Pu rcell, and his English predecessors -- Pacifism, political action, and artistic endeavor -- Auden's Britten -- The Britten era.
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