| A critical edition of the four interludes in the Cretan comedy Katzourbos and the fourth interlude in the pastoral drama Gyparis – Panoria, based on the sole attestation of the texts, a manuscript from Kefallonia held in the National Library of Greece. The introduction looks at the manuscript tradition, analyzes the content of the interludes and adduces as sources certain works of Italian drama (such as Torquato Tasso’s Gerusaleme Liberata), Latin literature (Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Seneca) and pastoral poetry. It is not known who wrote the interludes, but their composition is dated to between 1600 and 1669. They are written in contemporary Cretan dialect in rhyming fifteen-syllable lines. The edition is accompanied by notes and a glossary. |