Les implications du travestissement dans I Capuleti e i Montecchi de Vincenzo Bellini
My concern for transvestite parts stems from the Shakespearean drama conventions in which all female roles were performed by young men and apprentice boys for decency’s sake. Bellini and Felice Romani, his librettist, were certainly not influenced by the English bard, but by a common source, book 4...
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Maison de la Recherche en Sciences Humaines
2004-05-01
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| Series: | Revue LISA |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/lisa/2959 |