| Description |
1 online resource (245 pages) |
| Series |
Manchester Shakespeare collection |
| Contents |
Cover; Tasso's art and afterlives; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: 'I dote on Tasso'; 1 'A l'apparir de la beltà novella / nasce un bisbiglio e 'l guardo ognun v'intende': the arrival of Gerusalemme liberata in Elizabethan England; 2 'A place pickt out by choyce of best alyue, / That natures worke by art can imitate': the Bowre of Blisse and Armida's garden revisited; 3 Gerusalemme liberata and the visual arts in England; 4 'What enchanting Sound salutes my Ear?': Gerusalemme liberata and the early development of opera in England |
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5 'There are as many Tassos as there are Hamlets': representations of Tasso's life in EnglandConclusion: the emergence of Tasso's psychobiography; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Traces the impact of the great Italian poet's neglected masterpiece across a broad spectrum of arts from the sixteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, focusing on, among many others, the works of Spenser, Milton, Shakespeare, Daniel, Van Dyck, Poussin, Handel and Byron |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-230) and index |
| Notes |
In English with some text in Italian |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595. Gerusalemme liberata.
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Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595 fast |
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Tasse, Le, (1544-1595) -- Critique et interpretation. ram |
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Tasse, Le (1544-1595). Gerusalemme liberata. ram |
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Gerusalemme liberata (Tasso, Torquato) fast |
| Subject |
Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets.
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POETRY -- Continental European.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781526107893 |
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1526107899 |
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1526128349 |
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9781526128348 |
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9781526107909 |
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1526107902 |
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