Britten’s presentation of women in The Rape of Lucretia
The full text of this article can be read as a webpage or as a PDF. Cambridge Opera Journal has published my article ‘Britten’s opera about rape’ (the full text can be read as a webpage or as a PDF), a...
View ArticleDangerous children in Strauss and Britten
I’ve recently had an article published as part of a bigger project (see also here and here) that examines Britten’s postwar interrogation of the human subject (‘Made You Look! Children in Salome and...
View ArticlePeter Grimes and his Others
One of the first things I wrote on Britten’s operas will appear later this year in a Festschrift in honour of Julian Rushton (‘Being-With Grimes: the Problem of Others in Britten’s First Opera’. In Art...
View ArticleBritten’s retelling of Henry James’s ghost story
I delivered a paper last weekend at Liverpool Hope University’s ‘Britten in Context’ conference, with the title ‘Dead Sexy: The Turn of the Screw, or Miles Must Die!’. I’ll offer a slightly oblique...
View ArticleWomen in Postwar Britten
At Utrecht University last week I delivered the latest version of a developing paper on Britten’s presentation of women in his postwar operas Peter Grimes and The Rape of Lucretia. It forms part of a...
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