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Tonality as Drama Closure and Interruption in Four Twentieth-Century American Operas / by Latham, Edward David

Table of Contents: “…Tonality as drama: an introduction -- Dramatic closure: the Stanislavsky system and the attainment of character objectives -- Tonal closure: a Schenkerian approach to tonal drama -- The completed background line with open-ended coda: Scott Joplin's grand opera Treemonisha (1911) -- The multi-movement Anstieg or initial ascent: George Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess (1935) -- The multi-movement initial arpeggiation: Kurt Weill's Broadway opera Street scene (1947) -- The prolonged permanent interruption: Aaron Copland's operatic tone poem The tender land (1954).…”
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The Court of Comedy Aristophanes, Rhetoric, and Democracy in Fifth-Century Athens / by Major, Wilfred E., 1967-

Subjects: “…Greek drama (Comedy) History and criticism.…”
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Dreaming America Popular Front Ideals and Aethetics in Children's Plays of the Federal Theatre Project / by Frost, Leslie Elaine

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Staging Governance Theatrical Imperialism in London, 1770–1800 / by O'Quinn, Daniel, 1962-

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Entertaining Crisis in the Atlantic Imperium, 1770–1790 by O'Quinn, Daniel, 1962-

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Narrative Means, Lyric Ends Temporality in the Nineteenth-Century British Long Poem / by Morgan, Monique R., 1974-

Table of Contents: “…The labyrinthine plots and lyric stasis of Don Juan -- Plot anticipation and lyric association in The prelude -- Juxtaposed fragments of genres in Aurora Leigh -- Temporal hybridity in the dramatic monologue and The ring and the book.…”
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The Dispossessed State Narratives of Ownership in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland / by Maurer, Sara L.

Table of Contents: “…Disowning to own: Maria Edgeworth's Irish fiction and the illegitimacy of national ownership -- The forebearance of the state: John Stuart Mill and the promise of Irish property -- English property, Irish ownership and the British state -- The wife of state: Ireland and England's vicarious enjoyment in Anthony Trollope's Palliser novels -- At home in the public domain: George Moore's drama in muslin, George Meredith's Diana of the crossways and the intellectual property of union.…”
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Gaming the Stage Playable Media and the Rise of English Commercial Theater / by Bloom, Gina

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Making News at The New York Times by Usher, Nikki

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Literary Executions Capital Punishment and American Culture, 1820–1925 / by Barton, John Cyril

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