Table of Contents

Dryden and Purcell's King Arthur: Legend and Politics on the Restoration Stage - Robert Shay
Wagner: Tristan and Isolde and Parsifal - Derek Watson
Parry's Guenever: Trauma and Catharsis - Jeremy Dibble
King Arthur and the Wagner Cult in Spain: Isaac Albéniz's Opera Merlin - Walter Clark
Ernest Chausson's Le Roi Arthus - Tony Hunt
Rutland Boughton's Arthurian Cycle - Michael Hurd
An Exotic Tristan in Boston: the first performance of Messiaen's Turangalîla-Symphonie -
'Good lodging': Harrison Birtwistle's reception of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Robert Adlington
King Arthur in Popular Musical Theatre and Film - William A Everett
A Listing of Arthurian Music - Jerome V Reel

About the Author

RICHARD BARBER has had a huge influence on the study of medieval history and literature, as both a writer and a publisher. His first book on the Arthurian legend appeared in 1961, and his major works include The Knight and Chivalry (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award in 1971), Edward Prince of Wales and Aquitaine, The Penguin Guide to Medieval Europe and The Holy Grail: the History of a Legend which was widely praised and was translated into six languages. JEREMY DIBBLE is an Emeritus Professor of Music at Durham University where he taught for 30 years. He is the author of C. Hubert H. Parry: His Life and Music (1998), Charles Villers Stanford: Man and Musician (original edition, 2002), Michele Esposito (2010). With the Boydell Press, Dibble has published John Stainer: A Life in Music (2007), Hamilton Harty: Musical Polymath (2013), British Musical Criticism and Intellectual Thought, 1850-1950 (2018) (with Julian Horton) and The Music of Frederick Delius (2021).

Reviews

Nine authoritative essays... a very important book, a landmark for all future research in the area. ARTHURIANA This innovative collection adds a new dimension to Arthurian Studies.
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