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The Cultural Politics of Opera, 1720-1742
Thomas McGeary
其他書名
The Era of Walpole, Pope and Handel
出版Boydell & Brewer, 2024-09-24
主題History / Europe / Great Britain / GeneralHistory / Modern / GeneralHistory / Modern / 17th CenturyHistory / Modern / 18th CenturyMusic / History & CriticismMusic / Genres & Styles / Opera
ISBN18376516989781837651696
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=txUTEQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Explores the intersection of the world of opera, literature, and partisan politics to show how Italian opera was put to use in the 'culture wars' of the day.

This last of a trilogy of books on opera and politics in Britain examines the cultural politics of opera during the ministerial reign of Sir Robert Walpole from 1720 to 1742. The book explores the intersection of the world of opera, literature, and partisan politics to show how Italian opera - with its associations with the court, ministry and Britain's social-political elite - was put to use in the 'culture wars' of the day: how Italian opera was used for partisan political advantage; how political work could be accomplished by means of opera. It shows that attacks on opera had ulterior targets.

The book surveys a range of often overlooked verse and prints to show how critique or satire of opera were a means for oppositional writers to delegitimize the Walpole ministry. Polemicists framed opera as a consequence of the corruption, luxury and False Taste generated by Walpole's ministry.

It closes in the watershed year 1742: Handel had produced the last of his Italian operas the previous year, Walpole fell from power, and Alexander Pope published the last book of his Dunciad project.