Staging the Pastoral : Tasso's Aminta and the

"Staging the Pastoral concentrates on two performances of Torquato Tasso's pastoral play Aminta that were separated by over fifty years (1574 and 1628). Through micro-reconstructions of these stagings, it shows how the birth of modern Western theater as we know it was far less linear and simple than subsequent teleological narratives have lead us to believe. This study is based on extensive archival research and offers to English-speaking readers many previously non-translated documents. It will be of interest to students and scholars of theater and performance, early modern cultural history, Italian literature, and comparative literature."--BOOK JACKET.

Maria Galli Stampino is Associate Professor of Italian and French at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida.

Acknowledgements

vii

List of Figures

ix

Introduction

xi

CHAPTER ONE Aminta as Printed Text and Performed Event: Critical History, Failures, and Perspectives

1

(50)

1. Critical Assessments of Aminta

4

(13)

2. Aminta's Printing and Staging History: An Overview

17

(8)

3. Re-Presentation

25

(26)

CHAPTER TWO Pesaro, 1574: Carnevale

51

(46)

1. Pesaro in 1574

51

(4)

2. Carnevale Festivities at Pesaro

55

(6)

3. 1574 Reconstructed, 1785-1986

61

(5)

4. Aminta at Pesaro, Carnevale 1574

66

(31)

CHAPTER THREE Parma, 1627-28: Before the Medici-Farnese Wedding

97

(68)

1. The Occasion

98

(8)

2. Preparations: The Theater

106

(14)

3. Preparations: Music and Performers

120

(45)

CHAPTER FOUR Parma, 13 December 1628: the Medici-Farnese Wedding Celebration

165

(70)

1. Sources

165

(2)

2. The Couple's Arrival

167

(3)

3. The Setting

170

(10)

4. The Prologue

180

(2)

5. Act I

182

(2)

6. First Intermezzo

184

(4)

7. Second Intermezzo

188

(4)

8. Act III

192

(1)

9. Third Intermezzo

193

(4)

10. Fourth Intermezzo

197

(3)

11. Act V

200

(1)

12. Fifth Intermezzo

201

(7)

13. Afterwards

208

(27)

CHAPTER FIVE Elements of Meaning Formation: Aminta and the Emergence of New Staged Expressions (Western Modern Theater and Opera)

235

(50)

1. Space and Meaning Formation

235

(10)

2. Bodies and Meaning Formation

245

(6)

3. Rhetoric and Meaning Formation

251

(5)

4. Novelty and Meaning Formation

256

(5)

5. Emergence of Modern Western Theater and Opera?

261

(24)

Works Cited

285

(20)

Index

305

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

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