Opera and Sovereignty: Transforming Myths in Eighteenth-Century Italy
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"I love Feldman’s description of the performance practices of Italian opera of this period. Her description of the 'magical symbiosis' that travelers to Italy noted between audiences and performers inspired my thinking about how the centrality of salon-style performance by privately held acting troupes influenced a sense of the permeability of the boundaries of the stage in seventeenth-century China."
Recommended by Sophie Volpp, Professor of Comparative Literature and author of Worldly Stage: Theatricality in Seventeenth-Century China.