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001 2006026243
003 DLC
005 20081024085312.0
008 060809s2007 ilua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2006026243
020 $a9780226241128 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a9780226241135 (pbk. : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
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050 00 $aML1733.3$b.F45 2007
082 00 $a782.10945/09033$222
100 1 $aFeldman, Martha.
245 10 $aOpera and sovereignty :$btransforming myths in eighteenth-century Italy /$cMartha Feldman.
260 $aChicago :$bUniversity of Chicago Press,$c2007.
300 $axxv, 545 p. :$bill. (some col.) ;$c26 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aEvenings at the opera. Opera seria, sovereignty, performance ; Ritual and event ; Magic and myth ; Public opinion ; Evolutions ; Crisis and involution -- Arias : form, feeling, exchange. Ritornello form as rhetorical exchange ; The singer as Magus ; Rubbing into magic ; Frame -- Programming nature, Parma, 1759 : first case study. Enter nature ; Remaking viewers ; Cruel Phaedra! : Ippolito ed Aricia ; Pastoral redemption, or The old order restored ; Appendix : decree on audience behavior, Parma, October 4, 1749 -- Festivity and time. Time and the calendar ; Festive realms, festive spaces ; Unbridling the Holy City ; Laughter, ridicule, critique ; Nature revisited ; Appendix : edict on abuses in the theater, Rome, January 4, 1749 --
505 0 $aAbandonments in a theater state, Naples, 1764 : second case study. Compounds of royalty ; The sack of the beggars and the gift of the king ; Didone abbandonata : agonism and exchange ; Apocalyptic endings -- Myths of sovereignty. Of myth and the mythographer ; Themistocles, hero ; History as myth ; Sovereigns and two heroes ; The exemplary prince and the loyal son : Artaxerxes and Arbaces ; The conquering lover-king : Alexander the Great ; A hapless emperor : Hadrian ; Proud hero and imperial autocrat : Aetius and Valentinian III ; The king cometh ; Bataille's sovereigns : a postscript on identification --
505 0 $aBourgeois theatrics, Perugia, 1781: third case study. A theater for the middle class ; What class is our genre? : reworking Artaserse ; Whether purses or persons ; Toward the ideology of a bourgeoisie ; Appendix : Annibale Mariotti's speech to the Accademia del Teatro Civico del Verzaro, December 31, 1781 -- Morals and malcontents. Dedications to ladies ; Conversations and femiuomini ; Regarding the senses : continuity, accordance, truth ; The family of opera -- Death of the sovereign, Venice, 1797: fourth case study. The death of time ; Opera in a democratic ascension ; Pratile, June 4 ; La morte di Mitridate ; Summer season : Caesar, Brutus, and Joan of Arc ; Moralizing the spectator.
650 0 $aOpera$zItaly$y18th century.
650 0 $aMythology, Classical, in opera.
650 0 $aOpera$xSocial aspects$zItaly$y18th century.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0619/2006026243.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0732/2006026243-d.html