Also known as: Happy alchemy : writings on the theatre and other lively arts
Contents:
Alchemy in the theatre The noble Greeks Look at the clock! On seeing plays Laurence Olivier Prologue to The good natur'd man Lewis Carroll in the theatre An allegory of the physician The lure of fantasy Tanya Moiseiwitsch A letter from Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay Stratford forty years ago Introduction to an anthology of Canadian plays Introduction to At my heart's core and Overlaid Introduction to Fortune, My foe, and Eros at breakfast Introduction to Hunting Stuart and The voice of the people A prologue to the The critic Melodrama: The silver king --Some reflections on Rigoletto Opera for the man who reads Hamlet Opera and humour A conversation about Dr. Canon's cure Children of the moon --When is opera really grand? Scottish folklore and opera My musical career Dickens and music Folk-song: a lost world of archetypes Harper of the stones Jung and the writer The value of a coherent notion of culture How I write a book How to be a collector
