Ideology in Britten's Operas

by J. P. E. Harper-Scott and J.P.E. Harper-Scott

This thematic examination of Britten's operas focuses on the way that ideology is presented on stage. To watch or listen is to engage with a vivid artistic testament to the ideological world of mid-twentieth-century Britain. But it is more than that, too, because in many ways Britten's operas continue to proffer a diagnosis of certain unresolved problems in our own time. Only rarely, as in Peter Grimes, which shows the violence inherent in all forms...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108416365
• ISBN13: 9781108416368
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.4" x 9.9"