The Minor Characters in Handel’s Semele
A Character Guide To the Characters in Semele
Handel’s Romantic Harmony
Handel vs. Congreve
The Score and
The Libretto
Religion and
Pagan and Christian Syncretism in the Myth of Semele
Myth
Pride and Hubris Among Mortals and Immortals
Semele in
Giulio Romano’s The Birth of Bacchus
the Visual Arts
Gustave Moreau’s Jupiter et Sémélé
History and
The Performance History of Handel’s Semele
Performance History
The Historical Context of Congreve’s Semele
The Jazz Age
Social Movements and Cultural Change
Jazz and Prohibition
The Road to Prohibition