“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Giuseppe Verdi
Standard Name: Verdi, Giuseppe
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Alexandre Dumas | AD
's son, Alexandre Dumas, the younger
, born in Paris on 28 July 1824, also became an author, chiefly for the stage. He is sometimes confused with his father, since their periods of literary... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Pam Gems | PG
's treatment of Marguerite, a courtesan who dies of consumption, is far less sentimental about her than either Dumas's novel or Verdi
's opera La Traviata (a later version of the story and another... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Russell Mitford | MRM
wrote ecstatically to her mother of the success of this play on opening night, reporting that Frances Trollope
, between joy for my triumph and sympathy for the play, has cried herself half blind... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ethel M. Dell | The title story of Rosa Mundi is distantly based on that of Alexandre Dumas
's La dame aux camélias (which probably came to EMD
through Verdi
's operatic version in La Traviata, since her... |
| Leisure and Society | Kate O'Brien | Having delighted in operatic music since her first introduction to Gilbert
and Sullivan
at an early age, she was admitted to listen to Maria Callas
singing in a rehearsal of operas by Gluck
and Verdi |
| Literary Setting | Kate O'Brien | The novel centres on an actual historical character, Ana, Princess of Eboli, also known as Ana de Mendoza
(familiar to admirers of Verdi
's opera Don Carlo as Princess Eboli), a Spanish great lady of... |
| 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 |
Timeline
1784: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller's...
Writing climate item
1784
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
's tragedy Kabale und Liebe (later known in England as Intrigue and Love) was produced and published.
1848: Alexandre Dumas the younger published La...
Writing climate item
1848
Alexandre Dumas the younger
published La Dame aux Camélias, a novel which he successfully dramatised in 1852.
Weinstock, Herbert, and Wallace Brockway. The World of Opera: The Story of its Origins and the Lore of its Performance. Pantheon Books, 1962.
618
Sadie, Stanley, editor. The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Macmillan, 1992, 4 vols., http://Guelph.
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