Mozart the Dramatist: A New View of Mozart, His Operas, and His Age

Harcourt, Brace & World, New York [Published Date: 1964]. Hardcover, 328. First American Edition. In good condition/ NO dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine have some light nicking to the cloth on the top edge and corners and light to moderate overall scuffing, aging and soiling. Spine slightly cocked but binding is still nice and tight. Lightly spotting to edges of text block and end papers. Pages lightly aged but otherwise clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Missing dust jacket. This is Brigit Brophy's original 1964 edition (she later revisited it in 1988) of her profoundly original and controversial psychoanalytic study of Mozart's five most famous operas. Organized by theme, the contents include: Brief Chronology; The Importance of Mozart's Operas; Women and Opera; Opera, Cities and Enlightenment; Singing and Theology; The Quest for Pleasure; Anarchy, Impotence and Classicism; The Rococo Seducer; Compulsive Seduction; "He Bien! La Guerre"; Chivalry Inverted; Seduction in Mozart's Operas [with a note on Who is Cherubino, What is He?]; Mozart Proposes a Truce; Hell, Love and Society 1; 'Die Zauberflöte' Solved 1; 'Die Zauberflöte' Solved 2; Hell, Love and Society 2; The Exotic; Near the Core; 'Don Giovanni' and 'Hamlet'; Mozart and Brimstone; 'Such as the Father is, such is the Son… The Father Eternal, the Son Eternal…"; Society's Guilt; Enlightenment and Psychology; Mozart as Literature - and as Super-Literature; Notes; Articles and books cited; index