Overview
The acclaimed playwright, novelist, and author ofĀ Fifth BusinessĀ 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.Ā Happy AlchemyĀ collects an equally diverse range of Daviesā writingsāincluding 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.This book title, Happy Alchemy (On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre), ISBN: 9780795352492, by Robertson Davies, published by Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. (April 22, 2019) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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