Modern Language Review Supplement, One Hundred Years of 'MLR': General and Comparative Studies

'Ma in Spagna son già mille e tre': On Opera and Literature

Colin Smith

Abstract


Opera in its original language, or in translation, knows no boundaries. The author considers opera from a literary standpoint.

This article was first published in MLR, 91 (1996), xxvii-xxxix, and is the text of the Presidential Address of the Modern Humanities Research Assn read at University College London on 12 January 1996.

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