Starcrossed
Subtitle: a biography of Madam Butterfly
By: Brian Burke-Gaffney.
Series: Signature books; Signature books (White Plains, N.Y.)
Publisher: EastBridge
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Norwalk
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
Subjects: Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924; Nagasaki-shi (Japan) -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The historical backdrop : foreign men and Japanese women in old Nagasaki; title: Through the filter of literature : the impact of Pierre Loti's novel Madame Chrysanthme; title: True, but also untrue : the tale of Madame Butterfly; title: David Belasco, Giacomo Puccini and the "Yellow peril"; title: Prima donna Miura Tamaki and Nagasaki's journey to hell; title: Madame Butterfly in postwar Japan and beyond.