26. The Tedious Brief Scene

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part 1: Romeo and Juliet
6. Introduction to Part 1 33
7. 1. The Veronese Social Code 35
8. 2. The Code of Love 45
9. 3. Love against Language 55
10. 4. The Afterlife of Romeo and Juliet 63
11. 5. La lance branlée: French Opinions of Shakespeare 69
12. 6. Berlioz in the Plural 74
13. 7. Roméo et Juliette: Introduction 80
14. 8. Roméo et Juliette: The Symphony 91
15. 9. Roméo et Juliette: The Opera Resumes 107
16. Part 2: Macbeth
17. 10. Shakespeare’s Random 117
18. 11. Magic as Theft 121
19. 12. Prophesying 123
20. 13. Squinting at Consequences 126
21. 14. Macbeth’s Children 129
22. 15. Macbeth as an Actor 133
23. 16. Two Theatres 137
24. 17. Witches Amok 142
25. 18. Sortileges of Speech 161
26. 19. Lady Macbeth as Witch 167
27. 20. Time Slips 176
28. 21. La Sonnambula 182
29. Part 3: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
30. 22. Cosmicomedy 195
31. 23. The Picture of Cupid 205
32. 24. Depictorializing Cupid 210
33. 25. Cupid’s Wax 214
34. 26. The Tedious Brief Scene 221
35. 27. Other Dreams in Other Summers: The Aesthetic of the Masque 233
36. 28. Purcell’s The Fairy Queen 240
37. 29. Lampe’s Pyramus and Thisbe 257
38. 30. Experimenters: Mendelssohn and Korngold 262
39. 31. Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream 265
40. Notes 297
41. Bibliography 307
42. Index 311