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The Aesthetic Hypothesis and “The Rape of Lucretia”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

W. H. Haddon Squire
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Extract

Every music student knows that both oratorio and opera were developments of the early form of drama; indeed opera of a kind existed long before the Christian era and is as old as the drama itself. In England oratorio may be said to be the successor of the medieval Mystery play, and opera that of the Morality.

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Research Article
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Tempo , Issue 1 , September 1946 , pp. 1 - 9
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1946

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