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English Dramatick Opera, 1661-1706 (Paperback)
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English Dramatick Opera, 1661-1706 (Paperback)
Series: Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera
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English Dramatick Opera, 1661-1706 is the first comprehensive
examination of the distinctively English form known as "dramatick
opera", which appeared on the London stage in the mid-1670s and
lasted until its displacement by Italian through-composed opera in
the first decade of the eighteenth century. Andrew Walkling argues
that, while the musical elements of this form are crucial to its
definition and history, the origins of the genre lie principally in
a tradition of spectacular stagecraft that first manifested itself
in England in the mid-1660s as part of a hitherto unidentified
dramatic sub-genre, to which Walkling gives the name
"spectacle-tragedy". Armed with this new understanding, the book
explores a number of historical and interpretive issues, including
the physical and rhetorical configurations of performative
spectacle, the administrative maneuverings of the two "patent"
theatre companies, the construction and deployment of the
technologically advanced Dorset Garden Theatre in 1670-71, the
critical response to generic, technical, and ideological
developments in Restoration drama, and the shifting balance between
machine spectacle and song-and-dance entertainment throughout the
later decades of the seventeenth century, including in the
dramatick operas of Henry Purcell. This study combines the
materials and methodologies of music history, theatre history,
literary studies, and bibliography to fashion an entirely new
approach to the history of spectacular and musical drama on the
English Restoration stage. This book serves as a companion to the
Routledge publication Masque and Opera in England, 1656-1688
(2017).
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