If you happen to be in Glasgow tomorrow at 1.00, I am giving a ten-minute Insight Talk at the Hunterian Art Gallery. I will talk about the Enchanted Forest, an episode from Torquato Tasso’s Gerusalemme Liberata which inspired a 1754 pantomime in the French Court and a print by John Collins in 1759. Below you can see the print, which belongs to the Hunterian Art Gallery collections.
Alcastus in the enchanted forest. There are tricks and devilries ahead …. Illustration by J. Collins, 1759. © The Hunterian, University of Glasgow 2014
For those who are away or can’t make it tomorrow, I will write in detail about this enchanting episode in a following post.
First Crusade Fictions 