Guarini, Battista | Joseph Loewenstein (essay date 1987)
Joseph Loewenstein (essay date 1987)
SOURCE: Loewenstein, Joseph. “Guarini and the Presence of Genre.” In Renaissance Tragicomedy: Explorations in Genre and Politics, edited by Nancy Klein Maguire, pp. 33-55. New York: AMS Press, 1987.
[In the following essay, Loewenstein discusses the relationship of the tragicomedic genre to the pastoral mode as perceived in Guarini's Il pastor fido.]
Only someone who already knows how to do something with it can significantly ask a name.
Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations1
The famous title page of Jonson's Works (1616), a representation of Tragicomoedia, is both inappropriate and telling.
It is telling for it raises central issues for a critical study of both Renaissance tragicomedy, in particular, and of Renaissance ideas of genre, in general. The arch on which the figure of Tragicomedy stands analyzes her...
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