Torquato Tasso is a play in verse by the
GermandramatistJohann Wolfgang von Goethe about the sixteenth-century
Italianpoet and courtier
Torquato Tasso and his descent into madness. The composition of the play began in
Weimar in 1780 but most of it was written between 1786 and 1788, while Goethe was in
Italy. He completed the play in 1790.[1]
Lamport, Francis John. 1990. German Classical Drama: Theatre, Humanity and Nation, 1750–1870. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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