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Happy Alchemy

On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre
By:Robertson Davies
Publisher:Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
Print ISBN:9780795352492
eText ISBN:9780795352331
Edition:0
Format:Reflowable

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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.