Staging the Pastoral: Torquato Tasso's Aminta and the Emergence of Modern Western Theater

By Maria Galli Stampino (University of Miami)
2006 | 310 + xviii pp. | 3 ills. | Hardcover | 6 x 9 in | 978-0-86698-323-5 | MRTS 280*
$46 | £37

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This monograph offers a micro-reconstruction of two performances of Tasso's seminar pastoral Aminta that took place in 1574 and 1628. Based on archival sources, this study offers an in-depth analysis of the occasion, circumstances, audiences, and reactions to these performances. It delineates processes of meaning-formation before, during, and after these events and underscores those elements of modern Western theater that were then coming into existence. Of interest to students and scholars of theater and performance, of early modern cultural history, of Italian literature, of comparative literature.

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Another title is imprinted as MRTS Volume 280. (See MRTS 254). Staging the Pastoral is actually volume 280 in the MRTS series. However, due to the printing error which identifies MRTS 254 as MRTS 280, please verify that you are looking at the correct title by verifying title and author. We are sorry for the error and subsequent inconvenience.