Seeking the sacred: Edward Elgar's 'Caractacus' and surpassing the Roman empire
Blunnie, RóisínORCID: 0000-0002-6626-010X
(2016)
Seeking the sacred: Edward Elgar's 'Caractacus' and surpassing the Roman empire.
Religion, Education, and the Arts, 10
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pp. 28-46.
ISSN 1649-3591
This article explores Edward Elgar's attempts to ascribe Christian traits to the pagan king, Caractacus, in the cantata 'Caractacus' (1898), in an attempt to portray the late-Victorian British Empire as superior to the ancient Roman Empire.