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This translation of Torquato Tasso's Il re Torrismondo, the first to be made directly from the Italian into English, is intended to help those students and scholars who do not command the language of the original text. This translation provides readers with a wider range of the Italian tragedy as a genre; it also allows readers to acquire a deeper awareness of the entire spectrum of the Italian Renaissance in its final brilliance. Tasso's King Torrismondo provides an example of Neo-Aristotelian dramatic theory of the second half of the fifteenth century. It incorporates into the dramatic genre elements of the epic lyric poem. Tasso's language can also be studied as an example of "imitation" of Virgil, Dante, Petrarch, and Tasso's own epic. Finally, Tasso's Torrismondo affords us an opportunity of comparative analysis of French, English, and Spanish literature in the development of tragedy as a European genre.
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Keegan Brosseau
reviewed King Torrismondo on December 27, 2016
King Torrismondo
Years ago, I read Tasso's Aminta and I enjoyed it quite a bit - enough that I wanted to read his other play, King Torrismondo, as soon as possible. Well, it ended up taking a decade to find an affordable copy of Tasso's tragedy, and after all that waiting it was rather disappointing.
It's modeled on the Greek tragedies, particularly Oedipus the King. But it lacks the energy and verve that drives Sophocles' play relentlessly to its bitter and tragic end. Torrismondo's and Alvida's deaths happen rather suddenly. And the incestuous secret is awkwardly blurted out. The build up to these climaxes seems haphazard, and the play goes on too long after their deaths.
(My suggestion to all playwrights: Avoid any Oedipus-like stories. You will only fail in comparison to Sophocles' masterpiece. It is a rock on which no ship can land without destroying itself.)
Tasso's tragedy was obviously the model for the French tragedies of Corneille and Racine. It displays the same stiff, recitative quality. It also reminds me of Seneca with his set pieces.
This is a good edition, however, and I enjoyed the translation. Tasso was a great poet. And this edition provides the Italian on the facing page and ample introductions and notes to help create a context for the work.
The work, itself, however, is not that good.
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