| Contents |
Britten and Grimes -- "Grimes is at his exercise": sex, politics, and violence in the librettos of Peter Grimes -- Grimes and Lucretia -- Salvation at sea: Britten's Billy Budd -- Character and caricature in Albert Herring -- Britten's bad boys: male relations in The Turn of the Screw -- Britten's dream -- Eros and orientalism in Britten's operas -- Keeping the straight line intact? Britten's relation to folksong, Purcell, and his English predecessors -- Pacifism, political action, and artistic endeavor -- Auden's Britten -- The Britten era -- Appendix. Philip Brett's Britten scholarship. |
| Abstract |
The author's writing on Benjamin Britten changed the course of music scholarship in the late 20th century. This volume gathers Brett's work on the great British composer. It develops a complex understanding of Britten's musical achievement and highlights the many ways that Brett expanded the borders of his field. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-265) and index. |
| LCCN | 2006003045 |
| ISBN | 0520246098 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0520246101 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780520246096 |
| ISBN | 9780520246102 |
