Celestina (Applause Books)

by Fernando de Rojas

Overview

(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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780936839011
Publisher:	Applause
Publication date:	04/01/2000
Series:	Applause Books
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	108
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.28(d)