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Celestina Applause Books
by [de Rojas, Fernando]
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"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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- Applause Brand
- Apr 1, 2000 Pub Date:
- 9780936839011 ISBN-13:
- 0936839015 ISBN-10:
- 108.0 pages Paperback
- English Language
- 7 in * 0.28 in * 5 in Dimensions:
- 0 lb Weight:
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