Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xi
4. Introduction Remembering Philip Brett 1
5. 1. Britten And Grimes 11
6. 2. “Grimes Is At His Exercise” Sex, Politics, And Violence In The Librettos Of Peter Grimes 34
7. 3. Grimes And Lucretia 54
8. 4. Salvation At Sea Britten’S Billy Budd 70
9. 5. Character And Caricature In Albert Herring 81
10. 6. Britten’S Bad Boys Male Relations In The Turn Of The Screw 88
11. 7. Britten’S Dream 106
12. 8. Eros And Orientalism In Britten’S Operas 129
13. 9. Keeping The Straight Line Intact? Britten’S Relation To Folksong, Purcell, And His English Predecessors 154
14. 10. Pacifism, Political Action, And Artistic Endeavor 172
15. 11. Auden’S Britten 186
16. 12. The Britten Era 204
17. Afterword 225
18. Appendix Philip Brett’S Britten Scholarship 247
19. Works Cited 255
20. Index 267