Covent Garden

Covent Garden The Untold Story : Dispatches from the English Culture War, 1945-2000

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Publisher's Synopsis

This book offers a history of the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden and chronicles the rise and fall of this long-lived British cultural icon. Beginning with a glimpse at its pre-World War II classism, the story unfolds to describe how Maynard Keynes encouraged state money to bolster the Opera House and British citizens' spirits, and how it has si

Book information

ISBN: 9781555534882
Publisher: Northeastern University Press
Imprint: Northeastern University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 782.1094213209045
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 580
Weight: 1052g
Height: 244mm
Width: 160mm
Spine width: 43mm