Benjamin Britten and Montagu Slater's Peter Grimes

　`Who can turn skies back and begin again?'' -Peter 　 This book contends that Peter Grimes, widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential operas of the 20th century, is also one of the British theatre''s finest `lost'' plays. Seeking to liberate Britten and Slater''s work from the blinkered traditions of theatre and opera criticism, Sam Kinchin-Smith poses two questions: If an op...