Torquato Tasso (play)
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Torquato Tasso is a play in verse by the German dramatist Johann Wolfgang Goethe about the sixteenth-century Italian poet and courtier Torquato Tasso and his descent into madness. The composition of t
Torquato Tasso and the Two Leonores, by Karl Ferdinand Sohn
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A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays, which are a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between characters and is intended for theatrical performance rather than just rea
Torquato Tasso (play)
…Torquato Tasso is a play in verse by the German dramatist Johann Wolfgang Goethe about the sixteenth-century Italian poet and courtier Torquato Tasso and his descent into madness. The composition of the play…
Ben Jonson coined the term "playwright".
The Chandos portrait, likely depicting Shakespeare, c. 1611
The literary production of Aleksis Kivi, the Finnish national author, consisted mainly of plays. One of his best-known plays is Heath Cobblers from 1864.