Celestina
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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.
Product details
| Published | Apr 01 2000 |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 108 |
| ISBN | 9780936839011 |
| Imprint | Applause |
| Dimensions | 7 x 5 inches |
| Series | Applause Books |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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