Calderon Love Is No Laughing Matter

Author : Sean Page
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0856683655
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Calderon: Love Is No Laughing Matter written by Sean Page and published by . This book was released on 1986-01-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Calderon's comedy has received rather less attention than the other genres in which he excelled, it is widely acknowledged that his comic plays are inrivalled among his contemporaries in terms of plot structure and technical expertise; they also explore contemporary issues to an extent which has not been appreciated. "

Author : Sean Page
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780856683657
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Calderon: Love Is No Laughing Matter written by Sean Page and published by . This book was released on 1986-01-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Calderon's comedy has received rather less attention than the other genres in which he excelled, it is widely acknowledged that his comic plays are inrivalled among his contemporaries in terms of plot structure and technical expertise; they also explore contemporary issues to an extent which has not been appreciated. Love is no Laughing Matter is one of the best, in which the dramatist casts a sardonic eye on male chauvinism, women's education and social snobbery. This is the first complete text of the play to be published since 1650.

Author : Sean Page
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1800859139
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Calderon: Love is no laughing matter written by Sean Page and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Calderón's comedy has received rather less attention than the other genres in which he excelled, it is widely acknowledged that his comic plays are inrivalled among his contemporaries in terms of plot structure and technical expertise; they also explore contemporary issues to an extent which has not been appreciated.

Author : José María Ruano de la Haza
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1846313759
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pedro Calderón de la Barca written by José María Ruano de la Haza and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1988-05-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a definitive critical edition of the holograph manuscript (1639) of Calderón’s comedy. This volume traces the textual history of the play and lists variants from all known editions printed in or immediately after Calderón’s lifetime; it also gives a brief account of editions printed up to the end of the eighteenth century. Two sets of notes are provided: one listing and discussing all the emendations, additions and deletions made by Calderón in the course of the composition of the play; and the other offering clarification of words and allusions in the text which might cause difficulty for the modern reader.

Author : David Johnston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0856683329
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Calderon: the Schism in England: la Cisma de Inglaterra written by David Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1990-01-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Admired by Shelley for 'its satisfying completeness', this thought-provoking and skilfully constructed play, which dramatizes the same subject as Shakespeare's Henry VIII, is one of its creator's most outstanding achievements.

Author : Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0856683477
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Painter of His Dishonour written by Pedro Calderón de la Barca and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan Paterson presents Calderon's original text, from manuscript and printed sources, with a skilful verse translation into English of a remarkable play, in which Calderon develops the motif of marital honour in quite original ways.

Author : Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Publisher : Aris & Phillips
ISBN 13 : 0856687774
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Médico de Su Honra written by Pedro Calderón de la Barca and published by Aris & Phillips. This book was released on 2007 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most intellectually and emotionally engaging of the Spanish Golden Age (seventeenth century) plays, as well as the most controversial. Taking place during the reign of King Pedro of Castile (13501369), it is one of the spectacular 'honour dramas', in which the main characters confront compelling yet conflicting imperatives. The Physician of His Honour is beautiful in its poetry and unsettling in its resolution. For more than 350 years the play and its author have been as fiercely reviled as they have been enthusiastically acclaimed by audiences and readers. First published in 1997, for the second edition the translation has been extensively revised, with the aim of simplifying the English, whilst continuing to respect and acknowledge as much as possible the beauties and challenges of the original Spanish.

Author : Roy Norton
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1855663155
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Calderón de la Barca written by Roy Norton and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive study of Calderón in EnglishPedro Calderón 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, Calderón 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, Calderón''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 Calderón 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 sueño, his most famous work, which appears on many a university syllabus, and to his infamous wife-murder plays.ual 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 Calderón 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 sueño, his most famous work, which appears on many a university syllabus, and to his infamous wife-murder plays.ual 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 Calderón 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 sueño, his most famous work, which appears on many a university syllabus, and to his infamous wife-murder plays.ual 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 Calderón 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 sueño, his most famous work, which appears on many a university syllabus, and to his infamous wife-murder plays.an, 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 sueño, his most famous work, which appears on many a university syllabus, and to his infamous wife-murder plays.

Author : Margaret Rich Greer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400887119
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Play of Power written by Margaret Rich Greer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pedro Calderon de la Barca (1600-1681), one of the great dramatists of Spain's Golden Age, wrote a series of mythological spectacle plays for the Habsburg courts. Written when court spectacles were an instrument of monarchical absolutism, these later works by Calderon have often been dismissed by critics as servile flattery of the royalty or mere displays of dazzling showmanship. Margaret Rich Greer argues, however, that many of the playwright's court dramas not only explore human life and social organization, but also possess artistic unity and thematic complexity that make them landmarks in European dramatic history. Analyzing seven of these plays, she demonstrates Calderon's mastery in the integration of music, dance, elaborate scenery, and stage machinery to enhance rather than overpower his poetic text. Greer shows that by envisioning each drama in the physical setting of its performance and in the political context of its time, readers can appreciate a complex relationship of texts: intertwined with the flattering image of the splendor of royal power are a discourse relevant to common spectators and another one that is subtly critical of the policies of the king and the court. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : J. Hart
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230118143
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and His Contemporaries written by J. Hart and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-03-28 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is concerned with language, genre, drama, and literary and historical narrative and examines the comedy of Shakespeare in the context of comedies from Italy, Spain, and France in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.