Celestina
As Greek tragedy says a Spanish writer, was composed from the crumbs that fell from Homer's table, so the Spanish drama owed its earliest forms to La Celestina (1499).Fernando de Rojas' tragi-comedy - which has also been called a novel in dialogue - runs to about three hundred pages in the James Mabbe translation, here adapted to the stage by Eric Bentley in a five-act, 93-page version.The central and pervasive situation is a simple one: a dirty old woman is helping a courtly young gentleman to seduce a girl. The wonder of the thing lies in the art with which Fernando do Rojas derives, from such commonplace materials, a towering tragedy - or…
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- ISBN: 978-0-936839-01-1
- EAN: 9780936839011
- Produktnummer: 9080834
- Verlag: Applause
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
- Seitenangabe: 108 S.
- Masse: H17.8 cm x B12.7 cm x D0.6 cm 110 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 110
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