Aminta: A Pastoral Play
ISBN: 9781599101606
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Italica Press, Inc.
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Jernigan Charles 1942–;

The most famous pastoral play ever, this story of satyrs and nymphs, shepherds and lovers is set in the ideal forest, far from the world of urban sophistication and decadence. Tasso's Aminta spawned over 200 plays by 1700 in Italy and many others in France and Spain. It also inspired Shakespeare's As You Like It, Twelfth Night, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Includes the original woodcuts of the 1589 Aldine edition. Introduction, notes, bibliography.


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