Lawrence Tasso's art and afterlives

The <i>Gerusalemme liberata</i> in England
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-5261-0789-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lawrence, Jason

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

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 England
5 ‘There are as many Tassos as there are Hamlets’: representations of Tasso’s life in England
Conclusion: the emergence of Tasso’s psychobiography
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lawrence Jason:
Jason Lawrence is Lecturer in English at the University of HullJason Lawrence is Senior Lecturer in English (1500–1700) at the University of Hull