Cupid's Revenge The play portrays Leontius, the Duke of Lycia, suppressing the customary worship of the god Cupid, the patron diety of the land, in response to the pleadings of his son and daughter, Leucippus and Hisdaspes. In revenge, Cupid (who functions as a chorus in the play, comparable to the choral figures in the tragedies of Seneca or the personification of Revenge in Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy) oversees the ruin and death of the royal family and their retainers through some very unwise amorous entanglements. As he is dying in the play's bloody final scene, Leucippus reverses his father's edict against Cupid.
AmintaIs a pastoral performed by Gelosi about A young man Aminta, who saves a young maiden (Silvia) from a Satyr.
BetrothalThis is a Comedy performed in Mantua by the Jews in the 1570s. The original work is in Hebrew. It is a fairly normal comedy, except that it is filled with 16th century Jewish Italian culture.
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Date: 2007-03-23 05:56 pm (UTC)AmintaIs a pastoral performed by Gelosi about A young man Aminta, who saves a young maiden (Silvia) from a Satyr.
BetrothalThis is a Comedy performed in Mantua by the Jews in the 1570s. The original work is in Hebrew. It is a fairly normal comedy, except that it is filled with 16th century Jewish Italian culture.