Celestina
Format: Hardcover
ISBN13: 9780404518530
Hardcover|9780404518530
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Overview
"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 rather, tragi-comedy.
| ISBN-13 | 9780404518530 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0404518532 |
| Weight | 1.45 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 6.00 x 1.25 x 9.00 In |
| List Price | $57.50 |
| Format | Hardcover |
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| Publisher | Ams Pr Inc |
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