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Orlando Furioso

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Orlando Furioso
Ariosto’s romantic epic; actually a continuation of Boiardo’s plot. [Ital. Lit.: Orlando Furioso]
See : Epic
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It is slightly disappointing to find that in fact, while university parts, Restoration parts, and Continental parts may not have been adequately considered in previous work, there is still only one "part" from the professional early modern English stage, that of Orlando from Orlando Furioso.
Shakespeare in Parts by Aaron, Melissa / Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England
Since I am convinced that one cannot understand the Orlando furioso when taken out of its context as a continuation of the Orlando innamorato, it is perhaps to be expected that I should find a study that examines Ariosto's female characters without reference to their prior development in Boiardo's poem to be of limited usefulness.
Women and the Making of Poetry in Ariosto's Orlando furioso by Cavallo, Jo Ann / Renaissance Quarterly
of the Highlands and Islands, Scotland]) presents an edition of a Renaissance Scottish poem that was theoretically a translation of Ariosto's (1474-1533) Orlando Furioso but was more of a creative imitation of the type encouraged and prescribed by James VI to bring vernacular Scottish literature into step with that of the rest of Europe.
John Stewart of Baldynneis Roland Furious; a Scots poem in its ... by Reference & Research Book News
 
 
 
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