Brett, Philip.

Music and sexuality in Britten selecte d essays / [electronic resource] : Philip Brett ; edited by George E. Haggerty ; with an int roduction by Susan McClary and an afterword by Jenny Doctor. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006. - xiv, 280 p. ; 23 cm. - ACLS Humanities E-Book. .

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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University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing,
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Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Operas.


Composers-- Great Britain-- Biography.
Sex in music.
Gender identity in music.