Discorso delle comedie e delle tragedie

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Discorso delle comedie e delle tragedie

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Giambattista Giraldi
In his Discorso delle comedie e delle tragedie (1543; “Discourse on Comedy and Tragedy”) he reacted against the austerity of the classical tragedies. In his own tragedies—Orbecche (1541), his only strictly Senecan tragedy; Didone (1542); Altile (1543); Cleopatra (1543); Selene; Eufimia; Arrenopia; Epitia, from which Shakespeare’s Measure…
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In his Discorso delle comedie e delle tragedie (1543; “Discourse on Comedy and Tragedy”) he reacted against the austerity of the classical tragedies. In his own tragedies—Orbecche (1541), his only strictly Senecan tragedy; Didone (1542); Altile (1543); Cleopatra (1543); Selene; Eufimia; Arrenopia; Epitia, from which Shakespeare’s Measure…
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