Title Pagodas in play : China on the eighteenth-century Italian opera stage / Adrienne Ward.

Publication Info.	Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press, [2010]
	©2010

Item Status

Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Talbott: Circulating Collection	ML1733.3 .W37 2010	Available	---

Description	232 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
Series	The Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture
	Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-225) and index.
Contents	Setting the stage. Eighteenth-century exoticism and China ; China's journey from page to stage -- Playing with dynasty : China in opera seria. China in early opere serie (1700-1725) ; The enlightened imperial subject : Pietro Metastasio, L'eroe cinese (1752) -- Playing with reform : China in comic opera. Islands of opportunity : Carlo Goldoni, L'isola disabitata (1757) ; Rejecting false idols : Giambattista Lorenzi, L'idolo cinese (1767) ; Women traveling in new lands : Giovanni Bertati, L'inimico delle donne (1771).
Subject	Opera -- Italy -- 18th century.
	Opera.
	Italy.
Chronological Term	18th century
Subject	China -- In opera.
	China.
ISBN	9780838756966 alkaline paper
	0838756964 alkaline paper