Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Music Examples
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Perspectives
- Part II Studies
- 9 Settings from Boyhood
- 10 ‘Practical Jokes’: Britten and Auden's Our Hunting Fathers Revisited
- 11 Choice and Inevitability: The Moral Economy of Peter Grimes
- 12 Sin, Death and Love: Britten's The Holy Sonnets of John Donne
- 13 Britten's Donne Meditation
- 14 Scenes from Britten's Spring Symphony
- 15 ‘I have read Billy Budd’: The Forster–Britten Reading(s) of Melville
- 16 Miles Must Die: Ideological Uses of ‘Innocence’ in Britten's The Turn of the Screw
- 17 Benjamin Britten and Medieval Drama at Chester: From Abraham and Isaac to ‘The Nativity’
- 18 Ambiguous Venice
- Bibliography
- Index
15 - ‘I have read Billy Budd’: The Forster–Britten Reading(s) of Melville
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Music Examples
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Perspectives
- Part II Studies
- 9 Settings from Boyhood
- 10 ‘Practical Jokes’: Britten and Auden's Our Hunting Fathers Revisited
- 11 Choice and Inevitability: The Moral Economy of Peter Grimes
- 12 Sin, Death and Love: Britten's The Holy Sonnets of John Donne
- 13 Britten's Donne Meditation
- 14 Scenes from Britten's Spring Symphony
- 15 ‘I have read Billy Budd’: The Forster–Britten Reading(s) of Melville
- 16 Miles Must Die: Ideological Uses of ‘Innocence’ in Britten's The Turn of the Screw
- 17 Benjamin Britten and Medieval Drama at Chester: From Abraham and Isaac to ‘The Nativity’
- 18 Ambiguous Venice
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Literary Brittenwords and music in benjamin britten's vocal works the boydell, pp. 296 - 317Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2018