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Henry Purcell
Standard Name: Purcell, Henry
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Anthologization | Marina Warner | MW
contributed to Jeanette Winterson
's collection of original stories about opera, Midsummer Nights, 2009, with Forget My Fate, a tale about Henry Purcell
's Dido and Aeneas. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sally Purcell | Her father, Robert Joseph Purcell, was descended from a brother of the composer Henry Purcell
. Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. Jay, Peter, and Sally Purcell. “Foreword and Note on the Text”. Collected Poems, edited by Peter Jay and Peter Jay, Anvil Press Poetry, 2002, pp. 19 -24. 19 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Bury | Here she concludes by quoting, unascribed, eight lines of poetry by Congreve
beginning When Lesbia first I saw, so heavenly Fair. Bury, Elizabeth. An Account of the Life and Death of Mrs Elizabeth Bury. Bury, SamuelEditor , Printed by and for J. Penn and sold by J. Sprint, 1720. 189 |
Performance of text | Anne Finch | Love Thou Art Best of Human Joys, a song by AF
with music by Purcell
first heard in 1693, was sung at Frome in Somerset at a service marking the three hundredth anniversary of... |
Performance of text | Mary Pix | It had been given at Drury Lane
, probably during August, with songs set by Daniel Purcell
, Henry
's brother. Next year MP
, like Catharine Trotter
, transferred her allegiance to the new... |
Reception | Ephelia | Mulvihill's website at http://marauder.millersville.edu/~resound/ephelia/ offers a great deal of information including identifications, put forward with greater or lesser degrees of certainty, of twenty-three historical personages named in Female Poems on Several Occasions, together with... |
Textual Features | Nina Hamnett | She introduces with the words Drink is a great problem an analysis of Charles Lamb
's Confessions of a Drunkard, Hamnett, Nina. Is She a Lady? A Problem in Autobiography. Allan Wingate, 1955. 84 |
Textual Production | Michelene Wandor | MW
has adapted two German plays for English productions: Heinrich von Kleist
's Penthesilea, about the Amazons (1977), and Ernst Toller
's The Blind Goddess (1981). She also adapted Githa Sowerby
's Rutherford and... |
Textual Production | Michelene Wandor | This poem sequence has been performed to music by Henry Purcell
and John Hingeston
. The other works in the sequence were York, a poem-libretto commemorating a massacre of Jews in York in 1190... |
Textual Production | Jeanette Winterson | Her contributors included Ali Smith
on Beethoven
's Fidelio, Anne Enright
on Dvorak
's Rusalka, Jackie Kay
on Janacek
's The Makropulos Case, Joanna Trollope
on Donizetti
's L'Elisir d'Amore, Kate Atkinson |
Textual Production | Maureen Duffy | MD
published another biography, this time of a musician: Henry Purcell
(1659-1695). Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. |
Textual Production | Margiad Evans | To finish writing it, she moved temporarily out of the family home to stay alone at a country pub some three miles away. Lloyd-Morgan, Ceridwen. Margiad Evans. Seren, 1998. 45 |
Textual Production | Emma Marshall | She returned to literature (though she may not have thought of it as such) with In the Service of Rachel, Lady Russell
, A Story, 1893, and with Penshurst Castle in the time of... |
Timeline
16 January 1664
The Indian Queen, the first heroic tragedy on the English stage, by John Dryden
and Sir Robert Howard
, opened in London.
1673
Molière
's comedyLes Femmes savantes, first staged the previous year, was published.
Probably 1684-5
Henry Purcell
composed his Dido and Aeneas, a landmark in the development of opera in England.
Probably 23 April 1689
Mr
and Mrs Priest's girls' school in Chelsea put on the first (private) performance of Dido and Aeneas, by Henry Purcell
.
About November 1697
A tragedy by Charles Hopkins
, Boadicea, Queen of Britain, starring Elizabeth Barry
, scored an immense success.
1776
A group of upper-class men founded the Concert of Antient Music
, to put on performances of Purcell
, Handel
(who was by now out of fashion), and seventeenth-century Italian composers.
1946
Benjamin Britten
was commissioned by the Ministry of Education to write a score demonstrating the different orchestral instruments. He created Variations on a Theme of Henry Purcell, later recorded by the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra