Happy Alchemy
by Davies, Robertson (Author); Surrudge, Jennifer (Editor); Davies, Brenda (Editor)Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-07-01
Publisher(s): Penguin Group USA
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Summary
This posthumous treasury of brilliant essays shines with Davies' unmistakablewit, erudition, and magic.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | |
| Alchemy in the Theatre | p. 1 |
| The Noble Greeks | p. 7 |
| Look at the Clock! | p. 28 |
| On Seeing Plays | p. 47 |
| Laurence Olivier | p. 72 |
| Prologue to The Good Natur'd Man | p. 77 |
| Lewis Carroll in the Theatre | p. 80 |
| An Allegory of the Physician | p. 104 |
| The Lure of Fantasy | p. 115 |
| Tanya Moiseiwitsch | p. 121 |
| A Letter from Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay | p. 127 |
| Stratford Forty Years Ago | p. 132 |
| Introduction to an Anthology of Canadian Plays | p. 139 |
| Introduction to At My Heart's Core and Overlaid | p. 144 |
| Introduction to Fortune, My Foe and Eros at Breakfast | p. 150 |
| Introduction to Hunting Stuart and The Voice of the People | p. 155 |
| A Prologue to The Critic | p. 161 |
| Melodrama: The Silver King | p. 165 |
| Some Reflections on Rigoletto | p. 186 |
| Opera for the Man Who Reads Hamlet | p. 191 |
| Opera and Humour | p. 207 |
| A Conversation about Dr. Canon's Cure | p. 227 |
| Children of the Moon | p. 234 |
| When Is Opera Really Grand? | p. 264 |
| Scottish Folklore and Opera | p. 269 |
| My Musical Career | p. 289 |
| Dickens and Music | p. 294 |
| Folk-song: A Lost World of Archetypes | p. 299 |
| Harper of the Stones | p. 322 |
| Jung and the Writer | p. 331 |
| The Value of a Coherent Notion of Culture | p. 352 |
| How I Write a Book | p. 365 |
| How to Be a Collector | p. 370 |
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