The beggar's 'children' : how John Gay changed the course of England's musical theatre / by Atkins, Madeline Smith, 1932-

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The allure of the ancient : receptions of the ancient Middle East, ca. 1600-1800 /

Table of Contents: “…Middleton -- Reading the East : from the Enlightenment to the utopic projects of the revolutionary architects / Elisa Boeri -- Freemasons and Platonism : the allure of Egypt between big ideas and small details / Florian Ebeling -- Zoraster's French moment / Maryam Sanjabi -- Ancient and modern : citational practices and the status of ancient in Jean Terrasson's Séthos / Margaret Geoga -- Representing Egypt in French Enlightenment musical theatre : from Gherardi to the Opéra national / Mark Darlow -- From tragic hero to Creole businesswoman : Voltaire's Semiramis and her parodies in 18th-century France and Saint-Domingue / Julia Prest -- Babylonians in sixteenth-century Mexico : comparative antiquarianism in teh work of Sahagún / Felipe Rojas Silva -- Egypt and Babylon in eighteenth-century European histories of astronomy / John Steele -- What was oriental studies in early modern Europe? …”
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