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The Judgment of Paris

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  • Thomas Arne, engraving (1782) after an illustration by Francesco Bartolozzi.
    In Thomas Arne

    … (notable for “Rule, Britannia”) and The Judgment of Paris, both produced at the Prince of Wales’s residence at Cliveden in 1740. Arne’s settings of Shakespeare’s songs, written for revivals of As You Like It, Twelfth Night, and The Merchant of Venice in 1740–41, provide the culmination of this early style.

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