Playing A Midsummer Night's Dream: Reinventing Gender in Henry Purcell's The Fairy Queen and Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream

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Literary Studies (MA)

Stormbroek, Marloes Pauline Elsbeth van (2019)

Playing A Midsummer Night's Dream: Reinventing Gender in Henry Purcell's The Fairy Queen and Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream

Master thesis | Literary Studies (MA)

William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is, among many other things, a play that subtly criticises the patriarchal society in which it is set, advocating a more equal society instead, and this interpretation is confirmed and built upon by Henry Purcell and Benjamin Britten in their respective operas based on the play.

Midsummer Night's Dream

Gender

Opera

Semi-opera

Author: Stormbroek, Marloes Pauline Elsbeth van

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation: English Literature and Culture

Supervisors: Dijkhuizen, J.F. van
Newton, M.S.

ECTS Credits: 20

Language: en

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Playing A Midsummer Night's Dream: Reinventing Gender in Henry Purcell's The Fairy Queen and Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream