The music of Purcell, the characters of Nelson and Wellington and Gordon. . . . And think what that sense of Enchantment might do for them if only their background would change. For generations gone that has not moved. One day when the earthquake comes and the upheaval24 and all the ...
Henry Purcell, English composer of the middle Baroque period, most remembered for his more than 100 songs; a tragic opera, Dido and Aeneas; and his incidental music to a version of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream called The Fairy Queen. Lear