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- Title
"Peter Grimes" and the Rumour of Homosexuality.
- Authors
Hepburn, Allan
- Abstract
This article critically evaluates the opera "Peter Grimes," by Benjamin Britten. The least helpful statements about the opera with regard to the alleged open secret of Grimes's homosexuality come from Benjamin Britten himself. In his novel "The Swimming-Pool Library," Alan Hollinghurst offers two divergent views of Britten's Billy Budd as a queer opera. Britten claims that he wanted to express his awareness of the perpetual struggle of men and women whose livelihood depends on the sea—difficult though it is to treat such a universal subject in theatrical form.
- Subjects
PETER Grimes (Theatrical production); BRITTEN, Benjamin, 1913-1976; OPERA; BILLY Budd (Theatrical production); HOMOSEXUALITY; POETS; CRITICS
- Publication
University of Toronto Quarterly, 2005, Vol 74, Issue 2, p649
- ISSN
0042-0247
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3138/utq.74.2.648