Name: Three Spanish Golden age Plays: "Duchess of Amalfi's Steward", the "Capulets and Montagues", by Lope de Vega; "Cleopatra", by Rojas Zorrilla (Play Anthologies)
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Author: Lope de Vega
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Three Spanish Golden age Plays: "Duchess of Amalfi's Steward", the "Capulets and Montagues", by Lope de Vega; "Cleopatra", by Rojas Zorrilla (Play Anthologies)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Lope de Vega

Gwynne Edwards

Roja Zorrila

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Year

2005

Language

English

Pages

224

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.8 x 13.2 x 2.5 cm

Weight

0.31 kg.

ISBN

0413774759

ISBN13

9780413774750

Synopsis "Three Spanish Golden age Plays: "Duchess of Amalfi's Steward", the "Capulets and Montagues", by Lope de Vega; "Cleopatra", by Rojas Zorrilla (Play Anthologies) "

Three classic Spanish plays, made famous by Shakespeare and WebsterTwo of the most famous and successful playwrights of Spain's Golden Age of playwriting were Lope de Vega (1562-1635) and Rojas Zorrilla (1607-48). From their prodigious output, the three plays in this volume, based on similar sources to Shakespeare's and Webster's versions, provide a fascinating comparison with their Jacobean counterparts.Lope's The Duchess of Amalfi's Steward, in contrast to Webster's play, focuses on the nobility of love, with characters who are complex and appealing. His Romeo-and-Juliet story, The Capulets and Montagues, is a fast-moving mixture of serious and comic, with an ending that will surprise and entertain. Rojas' treatment of Cleopatra, with its rich imagery, emphasises the love theme, held within a knot of jealous relationships. A full introduction by Gwynne Edwards sets the plays in context and provides a thorough study of the individual works.

Lope de Vega

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FÉLIX LOPE DE VEGA CARPIO (Madrid, 1562 – 1635) Spanish playwright and poet, revolutionized the dramatic genre in the Golden Age. From a young age, Lope de Vega showed a precocious talent for writing, composing comedies and translating from Latin at an early age. His life was intense and often controversial, alternating periods of literary success with episodes of love affairs, duels, and exiles. He worked as a secretary for nobles, participated in the Spanish Armada, and, after a deep personal crisis, became a priest in 1614, never abandoning his literary work

In 1577, he entered the University of Alcalá and later served various powerful men. Becoming a famous author and a respectable family man after breaking up with his lover, Lope received two harsh blows in just one year: the deaths of his son and his wife in 1612 and 1613, plunging him into a deep crisis that led him to take holy orders. He even officiated mass. From this period are works like La dama boba, El perro del hortelano, and Fuenteovejuna. Both in quantity and quality, his work is vast, especially his theater, a genre in which the volume of his production is hardly quantifiable, even by experts.

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