Opera Greca -- rather than 'pastoral plays'

Speranza The Oxford illustrated history of theatre - Page 123 John Russell Brown - 2001 - 592 pages - Preview A pastoral play was first intended, but decades of intense theorizing about Aristotle's Poerics favoured his prime exemplar of tragic structure and the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza opened, rightly, with Edipo re, Orsatto Giustiniani's verse translation.