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The first comprehensive study of Calderon in English Pedro Calderon
de la Barca (1600-1681) is one of the most important dramatists -
many would say the single most important dramatist - of the Spanish
Golden Age. Spain's dominant and most prestigious playwright for
much of the seventeenth century, his work is still regularly staged
and translated, influential in more recent times on writers as
diverse as Schiller, Shelley and Lorca. The author of around 120
plays (not counting his numerous Corpus Christi autos) in a variety
of styles, Calderon is most famous for his stirring dramas,
characterized by rhetorically powerful poetry, dramatic structures
carefully calibrated to produce poignant echoes, and the fizzing
intellectual energy they apply to the age's ontological,
eschatological and political preoccupations. His plays succeed in
combining these perennial concerns with compelling plots subtle
enough to defy definitive interpretation. As this volume seeks to
show, however, Calderon's comedies deserve equal recognition. Too
long stereotyped as a dour, cerebral conservative, this
playwright's comic works are as amusing as they are clever. This
Companion is the first comprehensive study of Calderon in English.
It provides a rigorous but readable introduction to the man, his
work and its legacy. Its chapters - written by leading
international comedia specialists - provide an overview of his
life, explain his intellectual, social, moral, and literary
contexts, and examine his stagecraft, his corpus, and his reception
both within and without the Hispanic world up to the twenty-first
century. Specific chapters are devoted to La vida es sueno, his
most famous work, which appears on many a university syllabus, and
to his infamous wife-murder plays.
Esta entrega del Anuario calderoniano, aparte de la habitual
seccion varia, se centraen el auto sacramental, abordando los
componentes ligados a su propia epoca, y analizandolotambien como
sintesis cultural y artistica que plantea las posibilidades de
lecturacontemporanea de un genero del que Calderon fue maestro
indiscutible.
Text in Spanish. Este libro extraordinario presenta para el lector
moderno el reto de su dificultad ingeniosa. En esta edicion, por
primera vez, se abordan las dificultades textuales y de comprension
de los poemas, y se ofrece al lector un instrumento para acceder a
una de las obras mas importantes de Lope de Vega y una de las cimas
de la poesia universal.
Text in Spanish. El martir del Sacramento es uno de los tres autos
sacramentales de sor Juana Ines dela Cruz, junto con El divino
Narciso y El cetro de Jose. La presente edicion ofrece eltexto mas
fiable hasta la fecha, acompanado de un aparato de notas
explicativas y unestudio preliminar que intenta contextualizar el
auto en su marco generico y facilitar lacomprension de los lectores
de nuestros dias.
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