| Celestina Revised Edition Contributor(s): De Rojas, Fernando (Author) |
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ISBN: 0936839015 ISBN-13: 9780936839011 Publisher: Applause Books OUR PRICE: $12.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2000 Annotation: "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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Theater - General - Drama |
| Dewey: 862.2 |
| LCCN: 86003436 |
| Series: Applause Books |
| Physical Information: 0.31" H x 5.08" W x 7.06" (0.28 lbs) 108 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "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. |