Music and sexuality in Britten : selected essays / Philip Brett ; edited by George E. Haggerty ; with an introduction by Susan McClary and an afterword by Jenny Doctor.

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2006], ©2006.

xiv, 280 pages ; 23 cm

Britten and Grimes -- "Grimes is at his exercise" : sex, politics, and violence in the librettos of Peter Grimes -- Grimes and Lucretia -- Salvation at sea : Britten's Billy Budd -- Character and caricature in Albert Herring -- Britten's bad boys : male relations in The turn of the screw -- Britten's dream -- Eros and orientalism in Britten's operas -- Keeping the straight line intact? Britten's relation to folksong, Purcell, and his English predecessors -- Pacifism, political action, and artistic endeavor -- Auden's Britten -- The Britten era.

Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.

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