Metastasio’s Old Testament Dramas: Biblical Stories in Eighteenth Century Oratorio
Pietro Metastasio’s five Old Testament oratorio libretti—based on the dramatic stories of Cain and Abel, Joseph, Judith, Joash, and Abraham and Isaac—reveal the influence of the Counter-Reformation, of seventeenth-century French literary criticism, and of eighteenth-century biblical interpretation....
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University of Otago, Department of Theology and Religion
[2013]
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Relegere
Year: 2013, Volume: 3, Issue: 1, Pages: 57-78 |
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