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Download or read book The Thieves' Opera written by Lucy Moore and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 1998 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mesmerizing story of two notorious criminals in 18th-century London--Jonathan Wild and Jack Sheppard--"The Thieves' Opera" is an eminently readable work of popular history that blends meticulous scholarship with the best of the storyteller's art. Engravings.
Download or read book The Thieves' Opera written by Lucy Moore and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Thieves' Opera written by Lucy Moore and published by . This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georgian London, bulging with riches from its overseas colonies, was the epitome of elegance & refinement -- & a city of appalling depravity, decadence, & filth. Crime thrived everywhere, from pickpockets & prostitutes to murderous highwaymen. This is the story of a city on the verge of greatness, & of its two greatest criminals: Jonathan Wild, thief extraordinaire, & Jack Sheppard, gambler & whoremonger. As they reached folk-hero status, London was forced to check their escapades, no small task in a city overrun with vicious acts of horrific magnitude. Lucy Moore's riveting account of crime & punishment in 18th-century London paints a vivid portrait of an era, a place, & characters confounding the modern imagination. Illustrations.
Book Synopsis The La Scala Encyclopedia of the Opera by : Giorgio Bagnoli
Download or read book The La Scala Encyclopedia of the Opera written by Giorgio Bagnoli and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1993 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering a broad range of styles, this comprehensive volume includes entries for more than 450 operas that have been performed over the last four centuries. Organized from A to Z for easy reference, it's a complete guide that's certain to inform and entertain any opera buff. 500 photos.
Book Synopsis A Thousand and One Nights of Opera by : Frederick Herman Martens
Download or read book A Thousand and One Nights of Opera written by Frederick Herman Martens and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera 1728-2004 by :
Download or read book John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera 1728-2004 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Richard Steele remarked that the greatest Evils in human Society are such as no Law can come at, he was not able to forsee the spectacular success of John Gay's satire of society, the administration of law and crime, politics, the Italian opera and other topics. Gay's The Beggar's Opera, with its mixture of witty dialogue and popular songs, was imitated by 18th century writers, criticized by those on the seats of power, but remained a favourite of the English theatre public ever since. With N. Playfair's 1920 revival and B. Brecht's and K. Weill's 1928 Dreigroschenoper, Gay's play has been a starting-point for dramatists such as V. Havel (Zebrácká opera, 1975), W. Soyinka (Opera Wonyosi, 1977), Ch. Buarque (Ópera do Malandro, 1978), D. Fo (L'opera dello sghignazzo, 1981), A. Ayckbourn (A Chorus of Disapproval, 1984), as well as others such as Latouche, Hacks, Fassbinder, Dear, Wasserman, and Lepage. Apart from contributions by international scholars analysing the above-named plays, the editors' introduction covers other dramatists that have payed hommage to Gay. This interdisciplinary collection of essays is of particular interest for scholars working in the field of drama/theatre studies, the eighteenth century, contemporary drama, postcolonial studies, and politics and the stage.
Download or read book Opera Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Den of Thieves by : James B. Stewart
Download or read book Den of Thieves written by James B. Stewart and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A #1 bestseller from coast to coast, Den of Thieves tells the full story of the insider-trading scandal that nearly destroyed Wall Street, the men who pulled it off, and the chase that finally brought them to justice. Pulitzer Prize–winner James B. Stewart shows for the first time how four of the eighties’ biggest names on Wall Street—Michael Milken, Ivan Boesky, Martin Siegel, and Dennis Levine—created the greatest insider-trading ring in financial history and almost walked away with billions, until a team of downtrodden detectives triumphed over some of America’s most expensive lawyers to bring this powerful quartet to justice. Based on secret grand jury transcripts, interviews, and actual trading records, and containing explosive new revelations about Michael Milken and Ivan Boesky, Den of Thieves weaves all the facts into an unforgettable narrative—a portrait of human nature, big business, and crime of unparalleled proportions.
Book Synopsis Manual of English Literature by : Albert Hamann
Download or read book Manual of English Literature written by Albert Hamann and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Gay's Beggar's Opera by : William Eben Schultz
Download or read book Gay's Beggar's Opera written by William Eben Schultz and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Swan Thieves by : Elizabeth Kostova
Download or read book The Swan Thieves written by Elizabeth Kostova and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychiatrist Andrew Marlow, devoted to his profession and the painting hobby he loves, has a solitary but ordered life. When renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient, Marlow finds that order destroyed. Desperate to understand the secret that torments the genius, he embarks on a journey that leads him into the lives of the women closest to Oliver and a tragedy at the heart of French Impressionism. Kostova's masterful new novel travels from American cities to the coast of Normandy, from the late 19th century to the late 20th, from young love to last love. The Swan Theives is a story of obsession, history's losses, and the power of art to preserve human hope.
Book Synopsis Ballad Operas: a List and Some Notes by : George Tufts
Download or read book Ballad Operas: a List and Some Notes written by George Tufts and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Operas in English by : Margaret Ross Griffel
Download or read book Operas in English written by Margaret Ross Griffel and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2012-12-21 with total page 1015 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although many opera dictionaries and encyclopedias are available, very few are devoted exclusively to operas in a single language. In this revised and expanded edition of Operas in English: A Dictionary, Margaret Ross Griffel brings up to date her original work on operas written specifically to an English text (including works both originally prepared in English, as well as English translations). Since its original publication in 1999, Griffel has added nearly 800 entries to the 4,300 from the original volume, covering the world of opera in the English language from 1634 through 2011. Listed alphabetically by letter, each opera entry includes alternative titles, if any; a full, descriptive title; the number of acts; the composer’s name; the librettist’s name, the original language of the libretto, and the original source of the text, with the source title; the date, place, and cast of the first performance; the date of composition, if it occurred substantially earlier than the premiere date; similar information for the first U.S. (including colonial) and British (i.e., in England, Scotland, or Wales) performances, where applicable; a brief plot summary; the main characters (names and vocal ranges, where known); some of the especially noteworthy numbers cited by name; comments on special musical problems, techniques, or other significant aspects; and other settings of the text, including non-English ones, and/or other operas involving the same story or characters (cross references are indicated by asterisks). Entries also include such information as first and critical editions of the score and libretto; a bibliography, ranging from scholarly studies to more informal journal articles and reviews; a discography; and information on video recordings. Griffel also includes four appendixes, a selective bibliography, and two indexes. The first appendix lists composers, their places and years of birth and death, and their operas included in the text as entries; the second does the same for librettists; the third records authors whose works inspired or were adapted for the librettos; and the fourth comprises a chronological listing of the A–Z entries, including as well as the date of first performance, the city of the premiere, the short title of the opera, and the composer. Griffel also include a main character index and an index of singers, conductors, producers, and other key figures.
Book Synopsis The Rocky Horror Picture Show FAQ by : Dave Thompson
Download or read book The Rocky Horror Picture Show FAQ written by Dave Thompson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHAW ON SHAKESPEARE
Book Synopsis Thief-Taker Hangings by : Aaron Skirboll
Download or read book Thief-Taker Hangings written by Aaron Skirboll and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Glorious Revolution, a not so glorious age of lawlessness befell England. Crime ran rampant, and highwaymen, thieves, and prostitutes ruled the land. Execution by hanging often punished the smallest infractions, and rip-roaring stories of fearless criminals proliferated, giving birth to a new medium: the newspaper. In 1724, housebreaker Jack Sheppard—a “pocket Hercules,” his small frame packed with muscle—finally met the hangman. Street singers sang ballads about the Cockney burglar because no prison could hold him. Each more astonishing than the last, his final jailbreak took him through six successive locked rooms, after which he shimmied down two blankets from the prison roof to the street below. Just before Sheppard swung, he gave an account of his life to a writer in the crowd. Daniel Defoe stood in the shadow of the day’s literati—Swift, Pope, Gay—and had done hard time himself for sedition and bankruptcy. He saw how prison corrupted the poor. They came out thieves, but he came out a journalist. Six months later, the author of Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders covered another death at the hanging tree. Jonathan Wild looked every bit the brute—body covered in scars from dagger, sword, and gun, bald head patched with silver plates from a fractured skull—and he had all but invented the double-cross. He cultivated young thieves, profited from their work, then turned them in for his reward—and their execution. But one man refused to play his game. Sheppard didn’t take orders from this self-proclaimed “thief-taker general,” nor would he hawk his loot through Wild’s fences. The two-faced bounty hunter took it personally and helped bring the young burglar’s life to an end. But when Wild’s charade came to light, he quickly became the most despised man in the land. When he was hanged for his own crimes, the mob wasn’t rooting for Wild as it had for Sheppard. Instead, they hurled stones, rotten food, and even dead animals at him. Defoe once again got the scoop, and tabloid journalism as we know it had begun.
Book Synopsis A Book of Spirits and Thieves by : Morgan Rhodes
Download or read book A Book of Spirits and Thieves written by Morgan Rhodes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-05 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "Falling kingdoms spin-off series, which explores a whole new side of Mytica"--Dust jacket flap.
Book Synopsis Nine Famous Operas by : Iris J. Arnesen
Download or read book Nine Famous Operas written by Iris J. Arnesen and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains analyses of the stories and music of nine operas, presented in chronological order from 1791 to 1928. These great works are most readily approached with an understanding of the conventions of the several operatic genres as well as the social conditions that influenced the composers and librettists. The popular and intellectual movements that influenced the operas and the original source material are also discussed. The operas are Mozart's The Magic Flute, Beethoven's Fidelio, Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, Wagner's The Flying Dutchman, Verdi's Rigoletto, Bizet's Carmen, Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, Strauss' Salome, and Brecht's The Threepenny Opera.
