This book investigates the lives and careers of the Restoration era's three most famous actresses: Nell Gwyn, Elizabeth Barry, and Anne Bracegirdle. It elucidat

This study overturns twentieth-century thinking about pasticcio opera. This radical way of creating opera formed a counterweight, even a relief, to the trenchan

This book examines the Neapolitan painter and satirist Salvator Rosa (1615-1673) from a new perspective. Preoccupied with a performative brand of self-manufactu

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