Edition |
1st American ed. |
Description |
xiv, 384 p. ; 24 cm. |
Note |
Originally published in Canada by McClelland & Stewart Inc., 1997. |
Contents |
Alchemy in the theatre -- The noble Greeks -- Look at the clock! -- On seeing plays -- Laurence Olivier -- Prologue to The good natur'd man -- Lewis Carroll in the theatre -- An allegory of the physician -- The lure of fantasy -- Tanya Moiseiwitsch -- A letter from Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay -- Stratford forty years ago -- Introduction to an anthology of Canadian plays -- Introduction to At my heart's core and Overlaid -- Introduction to Fortune, My foe, and Eros at breakfast -- Introduction to Hunting Stuart and The voice of the people -- A prologue to the The critic -- Melodrama: The silver king --Some reflections on Rigoletto -- Opera for the man who reads Hamlet -- Opera and humour -- A conversation about Dr. Canon's cure -- Children of the moon --When is opera really grand? -- Scottish folklore and opera -- My musical career -- Dickens and music -- Folk-song: a lost world of archetypes -- Harper of the stones -- Jung and the writer -- The value of a coherent notion of culture -- How I write a book -- How to be a collector. |
Subject |
Davies, Robertson, 1913-1995 -- Aesthetics.
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Music -- History and criticism.
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Drama -- History and criticism.
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Added Author |
Surridge, Jennifer.
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Davies, Brenda.
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ISBN |
0670880191 (alk. paper) |
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9780670880195 (alk. paper) |
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