Happy Alchemy: On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre

Happy Alchemy: On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre

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Author/Contributor(s): Davies, Robertson
Publisher: RosettaBooks
Date: 04/22/2019
Binding: Paperback
Condition: NEW

The acclaimed playwright, novelist, and author of Fifth Business explores the performing arts in this witty and insightful essay collection.

Though best known for his award-winning fiction, Robertson Davies enjoyed a long and varied career as an actor, playwright, journalist and critic. Happy Alchemy collects an equally diverse range of Davies’ writings—including speeches, articles, prologues to plays, a ghost story set to music, and even a scenario for a film. In this eclectic volume, Davies shares his many musings on music, theatre, opera, and more. These pieces, many of them published here for the first time, touch on topics from Greek tragedy to Scottish Folklore and from Lewis Carroll to Carl Jung.