Macbeth multiplied: negotiating historical and medial difference between Shakespeare and Verdi
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1. Verfasser: Clausen, Christoph (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam Rodopi 2005
Schriftenreihe:Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 93
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Beschreibung:Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral), Freie Universität Berlin. - Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
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Acknowledgements; Preliminaries; Introduction; 1. Paltering in multiple senses: witchcraft, gender, madness I; 2. Fantastical creatures: witchcraft, gender, madness II; 3. Restoration and its discontents; 4. Shakespeare, opera, difference; Works cited
In what sense did Shakespeare's representation of the Weird Sisters participate in the rewriting of village witchcraft? Was it likely to "encourage the Sword"? Did opera's specific medial conditions offer Verdi special opportunities to justify the presence of stage witches more than three centuries later? How valid is the parallel between 19th century opera and the voyeurism of madhouse spectacle? Was Shakespeare's play really engaged in the project of exorcizing Queen Elizabeth's cultural memory? What does Verdi's chorus of Scottish refugees have to do with shifting representations of 'the pe
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