Ideology in Brittens Operas by J. P. E. Harper-Scott HARDBACK 9781108416368

Ideology in Brittens Operas\nby J. P. E. Harper-Scott\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: J. P. E. Harper-Scott\nTitle: Ideology in Brittens Operas\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Opera\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nPublication year: 2018\nISBN-13: 9781108416368\nISBN-10: 1108416365\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThis thematic examination of Britten''s operas focuses on the way that ideology is presented on stage. To watch or listen is to engage with a vivid artistic testament to the ideological world of mid-twentieth-century Britain. But it is more than that, too, because in many ways Britten''s operas continue to proffer a diagnosis of certain unresolved problems in our own time. Only rarely, as in Peter Grimes, which shows the violence inherent in all forms of soc.