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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- List of Illustrations vii
- List of Music Examples ix
- List of Contributors xiii
- Introduction 1
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Part i Perspectives
- 1 Britten and His Librettists: The Composer as Auteur 9
- 2 Britten, Auden and the 1930s 31
- 3 James, Britten, Piper and the Literary Supernatural: The Changing ‘vision of evil’ in The Turn of the Screw and Owen Wingrave 49
- 4 ‘Thought’s Wildernesses’: The Development of Britten’s Nocturne from Library to Score 77
- 5 ‘Reading at Intervals’: Britten’s Romantic Poetry 100
- 6 Britten’s Drops: The Lyric into Song 124
- 7 ‘Without any tune’: The Role of the Discursive Shift in Britten’s Interpretation of Poetry 144
- 8 Britten and Modern Tragedy 171
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Part ii Studies
- 9 Settings from Boyhood 185
- 10 ‘Practical Jokes’: Britten and Auden’s Our Hunting Fathers Revisited 206
- 11 Choice and Inevitability: The Moral Economy of Peter Grimes 223
- 12 Sin, Death and Love: Britten’s The Holy Sonnets of John Donne 243
- 13 Britten’s Donne Meditation 256
- 14 Scenes from Britten’s Spring Symphony 274
- 15 ‘I have read Billy Budd’: The Forster–Britten Reading(s) of Melville 296
- 16 Miles Must Die: Ideological Uses of ‘Innocence’ in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw 318
- 17 Benjamin Britten and Medieval Drama at Chester: From Abraham and Isaac to ‘The Nativity’ 340
- 18 Ambiguous Venice 356
- Bibliography 385
- Index 398
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- List of Illustrations vii
- List of Music Examples ix
- List of Contributors xiii
- Introduction 1
-
Part i Perspectives
- 1 Britten and His Librettists: The Composer as Auteur 9
- 2 Britten, Auden and the 1930s 31
- 3 James, Britten, Piper and the Literary Supernatural: The Changing ‘vision of evil’ in The Turn of the Screw and Owen Wingrave 49
- 4 ‘Thought’s Wildernesses’: The Development of Britten’s Nocturne from Library to Score 77
- 5 ‘Reading at Intervals’: Britten’s Romantic Poetry 100
- 6 Britten’s Drops: The Lyric into Song 124
- 7 ‘Without any tune’: The Role of the Discursive Shift in Britten’s Interpretation of Poetry 144
- 8 Britten and Modern Tragedy 171
-
Part ii Studies
- 9 Settings from Boyhood 185
- 10 ‘Practical Jokes’: Britten and Auden’s Our Hunting Fathers Revisited 206
- 11 Choice and Inevitability: The Moral Economy of Peter Grimes 223
- 12 Sin, Death and Love: Britten’s The Holy Sonnets of John Donne 243
- 13 Britten’s Donne Meditation 256
- 14 Scenes from Britten’s Spring Symphony 274
- 15 ‘I have read Billy Budd’: The Forster–Britten Reading(s) of Melville 296
- 16 Miles Must Die: Ideological Uses of ‘Innocence’ in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw 318
- 17 Benjamin Britten and Medieval Drama at Chester: From Abraham and Isaac to ‘The Nativity’ 340
- 18 Ambiguous Venice 356
- Bibliography 385
- Index 398