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Francesca Da Rimini

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1902. From the Introduction: Francesca da Rimini was acted for the first time at Rome, by Eleonora Duse and her company, on December 9, 1901. Has there, since Hernani, been such a battle over a play in verse? The performance lasted five hours, and many of the speeches were inaudible on account of the noise in the theatre. Since then the play has been freely cut, it has been acted with the greatest success in the chief cities of Italy, and has raised more discussion than any play in verse of this century. The translation which follows has been made from the unabridged text. The play is written in blank verse, but blank verse so varied as to be almost a kind of vers libre. This form of blank verse is not new in Italian. It is to be found in the pastoral tragedies of the Renaissance in Tasso's Aminta, in Guarino's Pastor Fido. We need only open Leopardi to see almost exactly the same structure of verse.
Release date Australia
September 10th, 2010
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Contributor
  • Translated by Arthur Symons
Country of Publication
United States
Imprint
Kessinger Publishing
Pages
244
Publisher
Kessinger Publishing
Dimensions
229x152x13
ISBN-13
9781162771427
Product ID
9211696

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