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17 hours ago · Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture was written in 1807 for Heinrich Joseph von Collin’s tragedy Coriolan; a play based on Shakespeare’s text Coriolanus. Although Shostakovich completed his concert in 1948, his concerns about official Soviet censure led him to delay the premiere of this deeply personal work until 1955.
Jul 7, 2024 · Footnote 11 The other devices were common in Greek and Roman drama, in varying degrees, though Hornby differentiates between inset set pieces which have a metadramatic effect and those which ‘are more conventional than metadramatic’, such as the chorus on the classical stage or such conventional speeches in the classical tradition as that of the bleeding sergeant in Macbeth (1.2). For ...
