“Yesterday in the train I read The Rape of the Lock, which seems to me "supreme"--almost superhuman in its beauty &  brilliancy--you really can't believe that such things are written down.”       

                    The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume 1

INTRODUCTION BY CYNTHIA WALL

Professor,Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature at the University of Virginia

CONTEXT BY MARK COLEMAN

Professor emeritus, SUNY Potsdam

PREFATORY ESSAY BY JACK LYNCH

Professor of English at Rutgers University.

LIBRETTO

MOCK-HEROICS

THE GAME OF OMBRE

SNUFF OR THE FAN:   THE SPECTATOR 

"Snuff or the Fan" scenes were taken from this satirical journal published by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.

COMPOSER NOTES,  BIO