Four comedies
by Calderón de la Barca, Pedro
Calderón, the great dramatist of Spain's Golden Age, was a skilled writer of comedy. His serious dramas have long been highly regarded in the English-speaking world, but his many sparkling comedies are an untapped reservoir for the contemporary theater. The four plays in this volume, three of which appear in English for the first time, have been translated by Kenneth Muir, the noted British scholar and director. These are comedies of intrigue. They turn on mysterious, quarrels, and jealousies, …
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- Full title :Four comedies / by Pedro Calderón de la Barca ; translated with an introd ; by Kenneth Muir ; with notes to the individual plays by Ann L. Mackenzie.
Summary
Calderón, the great dramatist of Spain's Golden Age, was a skilled writer of comedy. His serious dramas have long been highly regarded in the English-speaking world, but his many sparkling comedies are an untapped reservoir for the contemporary theater. The four plays in this volume, three of which appear in English for the first time, have been translated by Kenneth Muir, the noted British scholar and director. These are comedies of intrigue. They turn on mysterious, quarrels, and jealousies, and they abound in complication and misunderstandings, yet in the end all is explained, to the delight.
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- Publication Date:©1980.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University Press of Kentucky
- Place of Publication:Lexington
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1980.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (304 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780813163758, 0813163757
- oclc:ocn900345225
- LC Classification:PQ6292.A1
- Dewey Decimal:862.3
Table of Contents
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; From Bad to Worse; The Secret Spoken Aloud; The Worst Is Not Always Certain; The Advantages & Disadvantages Of a Name; Notes; Bibliography.
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