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El laberinto del amor pertenece a la colección Ocho comedias y ocho entremeses nunca representados. De temática novelesca, es una obra caballeresca y galante. Sus personajes viven desafíos de armas y amores, su protagonista Rosamira es agraviada en su hornor y será vengada.

La casa de los celos es una comedia de circunstancias con carácter caballeresco. Se estructura en tres actos, dentro de los cuales se funden el motivo carolingio con la leyenda de Bernardo del Carpio. Todo se configura en torno a una sucesión de grotescas escenas, como, por ejemplo, combates, encantamientos y cuchilladas.

El teatro fue la gran vocación de Cervantes. Escribe que cuando era mozo «se le iban los ojos» tras el carro de los comediantes y que asistió a las austeras representaciones de Lope de Rueda. Sin embargo, su éxito, se vio empañado por la nueva fórmula dramática de Lope de Vega, más audaz...

El cerco de Numancia es una tragedia renacentista escrita hacia 1585 por Miguel de Cervantes inspirada en la derrota de Numancia de las Guerras Celtíberas a manos del poder romano en el siglo II a. C. También llamada La Numancia, y en sus testimonios más antiguos Comedia del cerco de Numancia,...

Com a França do século XIX como pano de fundo, «Os Miseráveis» conta uma apaixonante história de sonhos desfeitos, de um amor não correspondido, paixão, sacrifício e redenção, num testemunho intemporal da sobrevivência do espírito humano.

“Het “Nieuwe Leven”, het “boekske” waarin de ongeveer zeven-en-twintig jarige Dante zijn jeugdliefde verhaalt, is een der wonderlijkste en tevens wonderbaarste scheppingen der dichtkunst. Wonderlijk is het om die zekere eigenaardigheden, waarvan enkele reeds Dante’s tijdgenooten hebben...

The second book in the three-part Divine Comedy finds Dante and his guide, Virgil, halfway between Heaven and Hell. Having portrayed the tortures of the damned in Inferno, Dante resumes his allegory of the soul's journey to God with Purgatorio. A place of pain but also hope, Purgatory allows its suffering...

In part two of La Divina Commedia, one of the masterpieces of world literature, Dante and his guide, the poet Virgil, must enter and traverse Purgatory and the seven deadly sins in their quest to reach Heaven. In this sublime version of Dante’s masterpiece, Alasdair Gray offers an original translation...

On the surface, the poem describes Dante's travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise or Heaven; but at a deeper level, it represents, allegorically, the soul's journey towards God. At this deeper level, Dante draws on medieval Christian theology and philosophy, especially Thomistic philosophy...

The New Life is the masterpiece of Dante’s youth, an account of his love for Beatrice, the girl who was to become his lifelong muse, and of her tragic early death. An allegory of the soul’s crisis and growth, combining prose and poetry, narrative and meditation, dreams and songs and prayers, The...

Aankomst der beide Dichters op het andere Halfrond; ontmoeting met Cato van Utica, die hun de eerste voorschriften geeft. 1 Om koers te zetten over beter water, hijscht nu het scheepje van mijn ingeborenheid de zeilen, dat zóó gruwbare zee achter zich laat: 4 en zingen zal ik van...

Inferno (Italian for "Hell") is the first part of Dante Alighieri's 14th-century epic poem Divine Comedy. It is followed by Purgatorio and Paradiso. It is an allegory telling of the journey of Dante through Hell, guided by the Roman poet Virgil. In the poem, Hell is depicted as nine circles...

This powerful work was read by Voltaire to Frederick of Prussia in 1740, to the king's great delight. The play was withdrawn after the fourth representation, under pressure of Church authorities who professed to see in it a bloody satire against the Christian religion. Almost three hundred years later...

François-Marie Arouet wrote under the nom de plume of Voltaire, and produced works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, and historical and scientific works. "Yet it is too soon. When I possess the crown, your faithful eyes Shall be the witnesses of all my deeds....