附註:103年科技部補助人文及社會科學研究圖書設備計畫規畫主題:藝術學:全球化與劇場跨界
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-351) and index.
Opera aficionados and guides to boy-actresses -- Metropolitan opera, border crossings, and the state -- Musical genre, opera hierarchy, and court patronage -- Social melodrama and the sexing of political complaint -- Sex versus violence in "I, sister-in-law" operas.