Shakespeare & Opera

by Gary Schmidgall and Annabeth Albert

If opera had existed in Elizabethan London, the world's Top Bard, as W.H. Auden called him, might have become the world's Top Librettist. As Gary Schmidgall shows in this illuminating study, Shakespeare's expressive ways and dramaturgical means are like those of composers and librettists in numerous and often astonishing ways. No wonder that well over two hundred operas have been based on Shakespeare's plays.
Ranging widely through the Shakespearean...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019506450X
• ISBN13: 9780195064506
• Release Date: December 1990
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.5"