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Author: Lope de Vega
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2012-04-27
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 048612052X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDIVA captivating 17th-century drama of peasants defending their honor against oppression by a feudal lord. Features an excellent English-prose version on the pages facing the original Spanish. /div
Author: Lope de Vega
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2010-08-31
Total Pages: 133
ISBN-13: 0300168721
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLope de Vega’s masterpiece, a classic play of the Spanish Golden Age, in a vibrant new translation Lope de Vega “single-handedly created the Spanish national theatre,” writes Roberto González Echevarría in the introduction to this new translation of Fuenteovejuna. Often compared to Shakespeare, Molière, and Racine, Lope is widely considered the greatest of all Spanish playwrights, and Fuenteovejuna (The Sheep Well) is among the most important Spanish Golden Age plays.Written in 1614, Fuenteovejuna centers on the decision of an entire village to admit to the premeditated murder of a tyrannical ruler. Lope masterfully employs the tragicomic conventions of the Spanish comedia as he leavens the central dilemma of the peasant lovers, Laurencia and Frondoso, with the shenanigans of Mengo, the gracioso or clown. Based on an actual historical incident, Fuenteovejuna offers a paean to collective responsibility and affirmation of the timeless values of justice and kindness.Translator G. J. Racz preserves the nuanced voice and structure of Lope de Vega’s text in this first English translation in analogical meter and rhyme. Roberto González Echevarría surveys the history of Fuenteovejuna, as well as Lope’s enormous literary output and indelible cultural imprint. Racz’s compelling translation and González Echevarría’s rich framework bring this timeless Golden Age drama alive for a new generation of readers and performers.
Author: Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Published: 2018-12-06
Total Pages: 70
ISBN-13: 0822238292
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe year is 1476. Famine and unrest haunt the countryside. Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand have joined their kingdoms to become the newly unified country of Spain. But the forces of King Alfonso of Portugal are threatening their new nation. Now, the Order of the Knights of Calatrava is questioning its allegiance to the new king and queen, bringing the young country to the brink of civil war…
Author: Alexander Samson
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 1855661683
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn assessment of the life, work and reputation of Spain's leading Golden Age dramatist
Author: David William Foster
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 454
ISBN-13: 9780815335641
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis anthology examines Love's Labours Lost from a variety of perspectives and through a wide range of materials. Selections discuss the play in terms of historical context, dating, and sources; character analysis; comic elements and verbal conceits; evidence of authorship; performance analysis; and feminist interpretations. Alongside theater reviews, production photographs, and critical commentary, the volume also includes essays written by practicing theater artists who have worked on the play. An index by name, literary work, and concept rounds out this valuable resource.
Author: Sandie Eleanor Holguin
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780299176341
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLandscape, Nature, and the Body Politic explores the origins and lasting influences of two contesting but intertwined discourses that persist today when we use the words landscape, country, scenery, nature, national. In the first sense, the land is a physical and bounded body of terrain upon which the nation state is constructed (e.g., the purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain, from sea to shining sea). In the second, the country is constituted through its people and established through time and precedence (e.g., land where our fathers died, land of the Pilgrims pride). Kenneth Robert Olwig s extended exploration of these discourses is a masterful work of scholarship both broad and deep, which opens up new avenues of thinking in the areas of geography, literature, theater, history, political science, law, and environmental studies. Olwig tracks these ideas though Anglo-American history, starting with seventeenth-century conflicts between the Stuart kings and the English Parliament, and the Stuart dream of uniting Scotland with England and Wales into one nation on the island of Britain. He uses a royal production of a Ben Jonson masque, with stage sets by architect Inigo Jones, as a touchstone for exploring how the notion of "landscape" expands from artful stage scenery to a geopolitical ideal. Olwig pursues these contested concepts of the body politic from Europe to America and to global politics, illuminating a host of topics, from national parks and environmental planning to theories of polity and virulent nationalistic movements. "
Author: Anthony J. Cascardi
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0271043547
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lope de Vega
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 1999-01-21
Total Pages: 680
ISBN-13: 0191605360
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLope de Vega (1562-1635), widely regarded as the architect of the drama of the Spanish Golden Age, was known by his contemporaries as the `monster of Nature' on account of his creativity as a playwright. Claiming to have written more than a thousand plays, he created plots and characters notable for their energy, inventiveness and dramatic power, and which, in contrast to French classical drama, combine the serious and the comic in their desire to imitate life. Fuente Ovejuna, based on Spanish history, and revealing how tyranny leads to rebelliion, is perhaps his best-known play. The Knight from Olmedo is a moving dramatization of impetuous and youthful passion which ends in death. Punishment without Revenge, Lope's most powerful tragedy, centres on the illicit relationship of a young wife with her stepson and the revenge of a dishonoured husband. These three plays, grouped here in translations which are faithful to the original Spanish, vivid and intended for performance, embody the very best of Lope's dramatic art. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Author: J. B. Hall
Publisher: Tamesis Books
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 110
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Henry K. Ziomek
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2021-05-11
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 0813183561
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpain's Golden Age, the seventeenth century, left the world one great legacy, the flower of its dramatic genius—the comedia. The work of the Golden Age playwrights represents the largest combined body of dramatic literature from a single historical period, comparable in magnitude to classical tragedy and comedy, to Elizabethan drama, and to French neoclassical theater. A History of Spanish Golden Age Drama is the first up-to-date survey of the history of the comedia, with special emphasis on critical approaches developed during the past ten years. A history of the comedia necessarily focuses on the work of Lope de Vega and Calderon de la Barca, but Ziomek also gives full credit to the host of lesser dramatists who followed in the paths blazed by Lope and Calderon, and whose individual contributions to particular genres added to the richness of Spanish theater. He also examines the profound influence of the comedia on the literature of other cultures.
