Theatre music = musique de scène / by Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695, Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759

Table of Contents: “…Alcina - 2 Arias & Spirit Music, HWV 34 -- King Arthur - excerpts, Z. 628 -- Music to Ben Jonson's 'The Alcymist', HWV 43 -- The Married Beau - excerpts, Z. 603 -- The Fairy Queen - 2 Arias, Z. 629.…”
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Essays on Giordano Bruno / by Gatti, Hilary

Table of Contents: “…Between magic and magnetism: Bruno's cosmology at Oxford -- Bruno's Copernican diagrams -- Bruno and the new atomism -- The multiple languages of the new science -- Petrarch, Sidney, Bruno -- The sense of an ending in Bruno's Heroici furori -- Bruno and Shakespeare: Hamlet -- Bruno's Candelaio and Ben Jonson's The alchemist -- Bruno and the Stuart Court masques -- Romanticism: Bruno and Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Bruno and the Victorians -- Bruno's natural philosophy -- Bruno's use of The Bible in his Italian philosophical dialogues -- Science and magic: the resolution of contraries -- Bruno and metaphor -- Epilogue: why Bruno's "a tranquil universal philosophy" finished in a fire.…”
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