caa a22 4500 388066652 CHVBK 20180307125134.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199911 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0954586700005048 doi S0954586700005048 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0954586700005048 Hurley David Ross Dejanira, Omphale, and the emasculation of Hercules: allusion and ambiguity in Handel [Elektronische Daten] [David Ross Hurley] The indebtedness of Handel's English librettos to their sources is increasingly well understood, but much remains to be said concerning the function of those sources in their new context. In other words, scholars have devoted too little attention to literary allusiveness - intentional references to earlier works and their intended ‘messages' to the audience. That such allusions can be found in these librettos by British authors almost goes without saying, for the British poetry of Handel's day is saturated with allusions. Reuben Brower, in fact, has called the Augustan poets the writers of ‘the poetry of allusion'. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999 Cambridge Opera Journal Cambridge University Press 11/3(1999-11), 199-213 0954-5867 11:3<199 1999 11 OPR https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954586700005048 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954586700005048 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Hurley David Ross NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Cambridge Opera Journal Cambridge University Press 11/3(1999-11), 199-213 0954-5867 11:3<199 1999 11 OPR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence SWISSBIB 117192244 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge