Tasso''s Art and Afterlives - The Gerusalemme Liberata in England

Informationen zum Autor Jason Lawrence is Lecturer in English at the University of Hull Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 England5 'There are as many Tassos as there are Hamlets': representations of Tasso's life in EnglandConclusion: the emergence of Tasso's psychobiography BibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Jason Lawrence, Lawrence Jason
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.07.2017
• EAN: 9780719090882
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-9088-2
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: general, Italian, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: poetry and poets