Table of Contents

Introduction
1 Opera in the English Manner
2 The Infiltration of Italian Music and Singing
3 Italian and English Singing and Partisan Politics
4 The Haymarket Theatre: A Whig Project
5 Whigs and Opera in the Italian Manner
6 1710: The Year of Great Change in Politics and Opera
7 Whigs Confront Opera: Britain at a Machiavellian Moment
8 Addison: Opera and the Politics of Politeness
9 The Whig Campaign for English Opera; Handel Celebrates the Peace
Epilogue
Appendix 1: Operatic Works Produced (or Known) in London, ca. 1660-1704
Appendix 2: Principal Independent Theatrical Masques Produced in London, 1676-1705
Appendix 3: Opera Performances by Season in London, 1705-1714
Appendix 4: Aria Types in All-sung Operas Produced in London, 1705-1714.
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

THOMAS MCGEARY holds a PhD in musicology from the University of Illinois. He is the author of The Politics of Opera in Handel's Britain, 1720-1742 (CUP, 2013) and Opera and Politics in Queen Anne's Britain, 1705-1714 (Boydell, 2022). He has published widely in art history, literature, and music history journals, including Burlington Magazine, British Art Journal, Philological Quarterly, Review of English Studies, British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Early Music, Journal of the Royal Musical Association, and Musical Quarterly.