 Author Name: Davies, Robertson.
Title: Happy Alchemy: On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre
Binding: Hardback
Book Condition: Very Good. Ex-lib but only lightly read if ever. In protective cover.
Weight: 711g
Size: 24 x 16 cm
Publisher: Viking Press 1998
ISBN Number: 0670880191 / 9780670880195
Seller ID: 29B185
By 1962, Davies had begun to craft his playgoing notes into the Theatre Diary--snippets of which appear in this posthumously published collection. Each of these 33 pieces, introduced by the author and followed by a diary entry or two, demonstrates Davies' enormous and diverse erudition. Included are speeches, prologues to plays, articles about the theatre and opera, a discussion of folksong, a children's opera, a story set to music and a preliminary sketch of a film script. Several personal essays shed light on his own ambitions as a playwright.
Opera, Rigoletto, Hamlet, Olivier, Lewis Carroll, Dickens, Jung,
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