La Celestina by Fernando De Rojas
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.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9788437607009 |
| ISBN 10 | 8437607000 |
| Title | La Celestina |
| Author | Fernando De Rojas |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Ediciones Catedra, S.A. |
| Year published | 2000-02-01 |
| Number of pages | 353 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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