The Songs & Masque in the New Tempest: An Incident in the Battle of the Two Theaters, 1674
| Autor: | Charles Haywood |
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| Rok vydání: | 1955 |
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| Zdroj: | Huntington Library Quarterly. 19:39-56 |
| ISSN: | 1544-399X 0018-7895 |
| DOI: | 10.2307/3816529 |
| Popis: | DECENTLY Dr. James G. McManaway has pointed out that "the A discovery in the Folger Shakespeare Library of two copies of Songs and Masques in the Tempest, previously unknown to scholars, calls attention to what is perhaps the earliest English libretto.' The similar discovery in the Huntington Library of a copy of The Songs & Masque in the New Tempest, also previously unknown to scholars, now brings to light what is probably the second English libretto.2 Presumably printed later in the same year, I674, the Huntington Songs & Masque tends to substantiate McManaway's hypothesis, and offers further'illustration of the form that such early librettos took. I shall endeavor to present a detailed description and reprint of the Huntington libretto, and also briefly discuss its relation to the quarto and author's MS. Moreover, these observations will, I believe, shed further light on the conflict that ensued between the Duke's and the King's players, and also indicate some of the techniques employed in their competitive struggle. The Folger librettos3 contain the songs and masques of Shadwell's operatic version of the Davenant-Dryden Tempest, first performed at Dorset Garden in the spring of i674.4 Comparison of the two |
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