The book analyses selected 19th-century operas based on Shakespeare's plays from the perspective of their relations to the literature, aesthetics and philosophy of the Romantic period. The texts discussed here include Verdi's Macbeth, Otello and Falstaff, Rossini's Otello", Halévy's "The Tempest", Gounod's "Romeo and Juliet" and Thomas's "Hamlet".

Autorentext

Alina Borkowska-Rychlewska is an Associate Professor at the Department of Romanticism of the Institute of Polish Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznä, Poland. Her research focuses on the 19th-century opera, Romantic theatre and music criticism, and the history of Polish literature of Romanticism.

Inhalt

Romantic Shakespeareanism in the 19 th -century European opera - History of the 19 th -century Polish theatre