Handel's Israelite oratorio libretti : sacred drama and Biblical exegesis /
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Author / Creator: | Rooke, Deborah W. |
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Edition: | 1st ed. |
Imprint: | Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012. |
Description: | xxii, 256 p. ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8771716 |
Table of Contents:
- Abbreviations
- Introit
- 1. To Laugh or Not to Laugh: The Question of Esther
- 2. A Gender Agenda: Deborah in Holy Writ and Handel
- 3. Jezebel, Joash, and Jesus Christ: Aspects of Athalia
- 4. Saul: Tragedy, Treachery, and Theology
- 5. From Wild Man to War Hero: The Story of Samson
- 6. Joseph: Saint or Sinner? Italian Opera, Handelian Oratorio, and Eighteenth-century Commentaries
- 7. Judas Macchabaeus: Justifying the 1745 Anti-Jacobite Campaign
- 8. Solomon and his Women: A Handelian Triptych
- 9. Susanna: A Marriage Made in Heaven
- 10. Sex and Death, or the Death of Sex: The Fate of Jephthah's Daughter
- Postlude
- Bibliography
- Index of Scripture References
- Index of Names