Celestina (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780936839011)

"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.

Author: Fernando De Rojas
ISBN-10: 0936839015
ISBN-13: 9780936839011
Publisher: Applause Books
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2000
Pages: 108
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.28lbs
Size: 7.06h x 5.08w x 0.31d