Torquato Tasso (play)
Torquato Tasso is a play in verse by the German dramatist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe about the sixteenth-century Italian poet and courtier Torquato Tasso and his descent into madness. The composition of the play began in Weimar in 1780 but most of it was written between 1786 and 1788, while Goethe was in Italy. He completed the play in 1790.[1]
Notes[]
- ^ Lamport (1990, 90).
References[]
- Lamport, Francis John. 1990. German Classical Drama: Theatre, Humanity and Nation, 1750–1870. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-36270-9.
- Tasso
External links[]
- Torquato Tasso at Project Gutenberg (in German)
- English translation of Tasso
Categories:
- Plays by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- 1790 plays
- Torquato Tasso
- Plays set in Italy
- Cultural depictions of poets
- Cultural depictions of Italian men
- Plays set in the 16th century
- Mental illness in fiction
- 18th-century play stubs