Book contents
- Sentimental Opera
- Series page
- Sentimental Opera
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Music examples
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Note on editorial method
- A prologue on genre
- 1 Pamela goes to the opera
- 2 The emergence of bourgeois drama
- 3 The codification of bourgeois drama
- 4 Opera as drame
- 5 Sensibility and the moral cure
- 6 A sentimental opera
- 7 Sentimental, anti-sentimental
- 8 Avenues
- Appendix Bartolomeo Benincasa’s preface to Il disertore (1784)
- References
- Index
4 - Opera as drame
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2013
- Sentimental Opera
- Series page
- Sentimental Opera
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Music examples
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Note on editorial method
- A prologue on genre
- 1 Pamela goes to the opera
- 2 The emergence of bourgeois drama
- 3 The codification of bourgeois drama
- 4 Opera as drame
- 5 Sensibility and the moral cure
- 6 A sentimental opera
- 7 Sentimental, anti-sentimental
- 8 Avenues
- Appendix Bartolomeo Benincasa’s preface to Il disertore (1784)
- References
- Index
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- Sentimental OperaQuestions of Genre in the Age of Bourgeois Drama, pp. 87 - 124Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013