The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Britten

• Frontmatter
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• pp. i-xviii

• Introduction by Mervyn Cooke
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• pp. 1-8

Part one - Apprenticeship

• 1 - Juvenilia (1922–1932) by Christopher Mark
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• pp. 9-35

• 2 - Britten, Auden and ‘otherness’ by Paul Kildea
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• pp. 36-53

• 3 - Britten in the cinema: Coal Face by Philip Reed
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• pp. 54-78

• 4 - ‘He descended into Hell’: Peter Grimes, Ellen Orford and salvation denied by Stephen Arthur Allen
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• pp. 79-94

Part two - The operas

• 5 - The chamber operas by Arnold Whittall
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• pp. 95-112

• 6 - Gloriana: Britten's ‘slighted child’ by Antonia Malloy-Chirgwin
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• pp. 113-128

• 7 - Britten and Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream by Mervyn Cooke
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• pp. 129-146

• 8 - Eros in life and death: Billy Budd and Death in Venice by Clifford Hindley
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• pp. 147-164

Part three - Perspectives

• 9 - Distant horizons: from Pagodaland to the Church Parables by Mervyn Cooke
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• pp. 165-187

• 10 - Violent climates by Donald Mitchell
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• pp. 188-216

• 11 - Britten as symphonist by Arved Ashby
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• pp. 217-232

• 12 - The concertos and early orchestral scores: aspects of style and aesthetic by Eric Roseberry
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• pp. 233-244

• 13 - The chamber music by Philip Rupprecht
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• pp. 245-259

• 14 - Music for voices by Ralph Woodward
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• pp. 260-276

Part four - The composer in the community

• 15 - Britten and the world of the child by Stephen Arthur Allen
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• pp. 277-291

• 16 - Old songs in new contexts: Britten as arranger by Eric Roseberry
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• pp. 292-305

• 17 - Aldeburgh by Judith LeGrove
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• pp. 306-317

• Notes
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• pp. 318-342

• Index of Britten's works
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• pp. 343-345

• General index
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• pp. 346-350