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''Torquato Tasso'' is a play in verse by the
Tasso
English translation of ''Tasso''
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''Torquato Tasso'' is a play in verse by the German
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dramatist
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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about the sixteenth-century Italian
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poet
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and courtier Torquato Tasso
Torquato Tasso ( , also , ; 11 March 154425 April 1595) was an Italian poet of the 16th century, known for his 1591 poem ''Gerusalemme liberata'' (Jerusalem Delivered), in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between ...
and his descent into madness. The composition of the play began in Weimar
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in 1780 but most of it was written between 1786 and 1788, while Goethe was in Italy
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. He completed the play in 1790.Lamport (1990, 90).
Notes
References
* Lamport, Francis John. 1990. ''German Classical Drama: Theatre, Humanity and Nation, 1750–1870''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. .Tasso
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English translation of ''Tasso''
Plays by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1790 plays Plays set in Italy Cultural depictions of Torquato Tasso Plays set in the 16th century Fiction about mental health {{18thC-play-stub