Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedications
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Musical Examples
- Preface with Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 Books to Make a Traveller of Thee: Pilgrims, Vagabonds and the Monodramas of Vaughan Williams
- 2 A Quarry for Profitable Working: Staging the Masques of Ben Jonson in London and Stratford-upon-Avon, 1903–1912
- 3 The Edens of Reginald Buckley: Temples and Tetralogies at Bayreuth, Stratford and Glastonbury
- 4 ‘One of the Greatest Composers the World has ever seen’: Vaughan Williams and the Purcell Revival
- 5 ‘What About an English Ballet?’ Edward Gordon Craig, Music-Theatre and Cupid and Psyche
- 6 Alice Shortcake, Jenny Pluckpears and the Stratford-Upon-Avon Connections of Sir John in Love
- 7 Bringing in the May: Alice Gomme, Cecil Sharp and Ralph Vaughan Williams at the Crystal Palace
- 8 Vaughan Williams, the Romany Ryes and the Cambridge Ritualists
- APPENDICES
- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX OF NAMES
- INDEX OF TOPICS
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2014
- Frontmatter
- Dedications
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Musical Examples
- Preface with Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 Books to Make a Traveller of Thee: Pilgrims, Vagabonds and the Monodramas of Vaughan Williams
- 2 A Quarry for Profitable Working: Staging the Masques of Ben Jonson in London and Stratford-upon-Avon, 1903–1912
- 3 The Edens of Reginald Buckley: Temples and Tetralogies at Bayreuth, Stratford and Glastonbury
- 4 ‘One of the Greatest Composers the World has ever seen’: Vaughan Williams and the Purcell Revival
- 5 ‘What About an English Ballet?’ Edward Gordon Craig, Music-Theatre and Cupid and Psyche
- 6 Alice Shortcake, Jenny Pluckpears and the Stratford-Upon-Avon Connections of Sir John in Love
- 7 Bringing in the May: Alice Gomme, Cecil Sharp and Ralph Vaughan Williams at the Crystal Palace
- 8 Vaughan Williams, the Romany Ryes and the Cambridge Ritualists
- APPENDICES
- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX OF NAMES
- INDEX OF TOPICS
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- Masques, Mayings and Music-DramasVaughan Williams and the Early Twentieth-Century Stage, pp. i - ivPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2014