Alexander's Feast (Dryden)
Alexander's Feast, or the Power of Musick: an Ode wrote in Honour of St. Cecilia est carmen Ioannis Dryden, anno 1697 scriptum, ubi narratur historia comissationis Alexandri Magni Persepoli celebratae: eodem tempore evocari censetur unio Gulielmi et Mariae, qui ab anno 1685 Britanniae imperabant. Huic carmini sub eodem titulo musicam anno 1736 composuit Georgius Fridericus Handel. Versus None but the brave deserves the fair e carmine saepe citatur.
Fontes principales, quibus Dryden usus est, fuerunt Plutarchi "Vita Alexandri" (quam cognovit ipse) et anecdoton e Basilii Caesareensis Ad adolescentes (quod per scriptorem recentiorem Ieremiam Collier habuit)[1] de Timotheo, cantore qui, variis modis musicis utens, Alexandrum ad pugnam et ad somnum vicissim coegerit. Secundum Plutarchum aliosque auctores antiquos, Timotheus a Persepoli aberat.[2]
Notae recensere
- ↑ Plutarchus, "Vita Alexandri" cap. 38; Basilii Caesareensis Oratio ad adolescentes de legendis libris gentilium cap. 8; Jeremy Collier, "Of Musick" in Miscellanies upon Moral Subjects pars ii (Londinii: Keeble and Hindmarsh, 1695), 20-21.
- ↑ Moore (1958); Smith (1978) pp. 471-473 et nota 10; MacCubbin (1985) pp. 35-37
Bibliographia recensere
- John Dawson Carl Buck, "The Ascetic's Banquet: The Morality of Alexander's Feast" in Texas Studies in Literature and Language vol. 17 (1975) pp. 573-589 JSTOR
- Robert P. MacCubbin, "The Ironies of Dryden's "Alexander's Feast; or The Power of Musique": Text and Contexts" in Mosaic vol. 18 (1985) pp. 33-47 JSTOR
- John Robert Moore, "Alexander's Feast: A Possible Chronology of Development" in Philological quarterly vol. 37 (1958) pp. 495-498
- Bessie Proffitt, "Political Satire in Dryden's Alexander's Feast" in Texas Studies in Literature and Language 11 (1970): 1307-1316 apud JSTOR.
- Ruth Smith, "The Argument and Contexts of Dryden's Alexander's Feast" in Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 vol. 18 (1978) pp. 465-490 JSTOR