La sonnambula = The sleepwalker : opera in Italian in two acts / by Fisher, Burton D.

Table of Contents: “…Principal characters in La sonnambula -- Brief story synopsis -- Story narrative with music highlights -- Commentary and analysis.…”
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Musicking Shakespeare : a conflict of theatres / by Albright, Daniel, 1945-2015

Table of Contents: “…Shakespeare's random ; Magic as theft ; Prophesying ; Squinting at consequences ; Macbeth's children ; Macbeth as an actor ; Two theatres ; Witches amok ; Sortileges of speech ; Lady Macbeth as witch ; Time slips ; La sonnambula -- A midsummer night's dream. Cosmicomedy ; The picture of cupid ; Depictorializing cupid ; Cupid's wax ; The tedious brief scene ; Other dreams in other summers : the aesthetic of the masque ; Purcell's The fairy queen ; Lampe's Pyramus and Thisbe ; Experimenters : Mendelssohn and Korngold ; Britten's A midsummer night's dream.…”
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The opera manual / by Martin, Nicholas Ivor

Table of Contents: “…Beatrice di Tenda = Beatrice of Tenda ; I Capuleti e i Montecchi = The Capulets and the Montagues ; Norma ; Il Parata = The Pirate ; I Puritani = The Puritans ; La Sonnambula = The Sleepwalker ; La Straniera = The Foreign Woman -- Arthur Benjamin. …”
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