The Chaste Diana

The Chaste Diana

Author: L. Adams Beck

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-09-11

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 3368930915

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The Chaste Diana

The Chaste Diana

Author: Elizabeth Louisa Moresby

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-08-01

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13:

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Chaste Diana" by Elizabeth Louisa Moresby. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.


The Chaste Diana

The Chaste Diana

Author: L. Adams Beck

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-09-11

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 3368930907

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Emblems of Eloquence

Emblems of Eloquence

Author: Wendy Heller

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2004-01-12

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 0520919343

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Opera developed during a time when the position of women—their rights and freedoms, their virtues and vices, and even the most basic substance of their sexuality—was constantly debated. Many of these controversies manifested themselves in the representation of the historical and mythological women whose voices were heard on the Venetian operatic stage. Drawing upon a complex web of early modern sources and ancient texts, this engaging study is the first comprehensive treatment of women, gender, and sexuality in seventeenth-century opera. Wendy Heller explores the operatic manifestations of female chastity, power, transvestism, androgyny, and desire, showing how the emerging genre was shaped by and infused with the Republic's taste for the erotic and its ambivalent attitudes toward women and sexuality. Heller begins by examining contemporary Venetian writings about gender and sexuality that influenced the development of female vocality in opera. The Venetian reception and transformation of ancient texts—by Ovid, Virgil, Tacitus, and Diodorus Siculus—form the background for her penetrating analyses of the musical and dramatic representation of five extraordinary women as presented in operas by Claudio Monteverdi, Francesco Cavalli, and their successors in Venice: Dido, queen of Carthage (Cavalli); Octavia, wife of Nero (Monteverdi); the nymph Callisto (Cavalli); Queen Semiramis of Assyria (Pietro Andrea Ziani); and Messalina, wife of Claudius (Carlo Pallavicino).


Culture and Change

Culture and Change

Author: Margaret Lael Mikesell

Publisher: University of Delaware Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 9780874138252

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These issues of city-building and institutional change involved more than the familiar push and pull of interest groups or battles between bosses, reformers, immigrants, and natives. Revell explores the ways in which technical values - a distinctive civic culture of expertise - helped to reshape ideas of community, generate new centers of public authority, and change the physical landscape of New York City."--Jacket.


Shakespeare and the Performance of Girlhood

Shakespeare and the Performance of Girlhood

Author: D. Williams

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-04-23

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 1137024763

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This is the first scholarly study devoted to Shakespeare's girl characters and conceptions of girlhood. It charts the development of Shakespeare's treatment of the girl as a dramatic and literary figure, and explores the impact of Shakespeare's girl characters on the history of early modern girls as performers, patrons, and authors.