This volume is the first ever collection of Henry Purcell's opera texts. The much neglected `dramatick operas' or `semi-operas' are here edited in entirety, alongside Purcell's famous all-sung work, Dido and Aeneas , in both its 1689 form and its 1700 adaptation as a series of masques in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure . Each opera has a short introduction explaining the circumstances of the composition of the work and the sources of the opera text.
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This volume is the first ever collection of Henry Purcell's opera texts. The much neglected `dramatick operas' or `semi-operas' are here edited in entirety, alongside Purcell's famous all-sung work, Dido and Aeneas , in both its 1689 form and its 1700 adaptation as a series of masques in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure . Each opera has a short introduction explaining the circumstances of the composition of the work and the sources of the opera text.
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Near fine in near fine jacket. Inscribed by Burden to Robert D. Hume, who is cited in text! Blue cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 528pp., illustrated in b&w. Book has handsome boards and tight binding, Hume's stamp to front flyleaf, otherwise text clean and unmarked. DJ has faint sun to spine, now in archival mylar wrap. Robert D. Hume (1944-2023), was an Evan Pugh University Professor at Penn State who authored multiple books on 17th & 18th century British drama, literature, music and culture.
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