Product Placement
Said the elderly Benjamin Britten
When surveying the things he had written,
“I hope that posterity
Will view them with charity,
And find a small niche they can fit in."
Compare and Contrast
Billy Budd
(Latent lust).
Noye’s Fludde
(Blatant trust).
Albert Herring: A Synopsis
Albert Herring, rather drunk,
Thought himself to be a hunk.
Loaded, as he was, with Scotch
Went out on his first debauch.
When he up and disappeared
Mayhem and foul play were feared.
Worthies of the town heard tell
That he perished in a well,
But when their threnody was through,
Albert turned up good as new.
Peter Grimes: Synopsis
Day’s begun,
The rising sun,
A gentle English tide.
Peter Grimes
Committed crimes,
Or so the village cried.
“He’s no felon,”
Countered Ellen,
“And I will be his guide.”
But the boy
In his employ
Took a fatal slide.
In the end,
Without a friend,
He sank his boat and died.
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