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Torquato Tasso (play)
Torquato Tasso
is a
play
in verse
by the
German
dramatist
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
about the
sixteenth-century
Italian poet
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
.