A book detailing the history of "Giselle"?

[Solor]

I am not sure if it exists or not, but isnt there a book that details the history of "Giselle", sort of in the spirit of Roland John Wiley's "Tchaikovsky's Ballets"? I thought that maybe at some point I had heard about it, and I think the title was "A Ballet Called Giselle" but I could be mistaken........

[Alexandra]

Cyril W. Beaumont wrote "A Ballet Called 'Giselle'" (as well as "A Ballet Called 'Swan Lake'") and it is a history and analysis. There's also a much newer book by Marion Smith called "Ballet and Opera iin the Age of 'Giselle'" which is exaclty what its title says, but includes several hefty chapters on "Giselle," including much material on what the ballet originally looked like (LOTS more mime scenes, etc.)

[Paul Parish]

Not certain of this, but didn't Alexander Bland write something big about Giselle?