Celestina (Applause Books)

Rojas, Fernando De

ISBN 10: 0936839015 / ISBN 13: 9780936839011

Editore: Applause, 2000

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Riassunto:

(Applause Books). "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.

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Titolo: Celestina (Applause Books)
Casa editrice: Applause
Data di pubblicazione: 2000
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: Good