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Otis clarifies the moral and theological issues raised in the <3>Ortesia<1> and relates them to certain stylistic and structural qualities of the three plays. He tackles the central questions of guilt, retribution, and the relation between human and divine justice, and he sees a carefully...

Se presenta aquí la primera edición crítica de la comedia mitológica La dama y galán Aquiles de Pedro Calderón de la Barca (habitualmente llamada El monstruo de los jardines). El estudio introductorio que acompaña la obra arroja nueva luz sobre esta pieza representativa de la comedia mitológica...

Can you really write a play that lasts a minute? The one minute play offers a unique challenge to actors, directors and writers: how do you create a whole world, where actors have room to perform and where audiences have a true experience all in 60 seconds? One Minute Plays: A Practical...

When Jon Fosse had his playwright début with And We Shall Never Part at the National Theatre in Bergen in 1994, he was already an established author of several novels, collections of poetry and children’s books. Since his breakthrough in 1996 with the world premiere of Someone Will Arrive at the...

In this fascinating new exploration of Samuel Beckett’s work, Pascale Casanova argues that Beckett’s reputation rests on a pervasive misreading of his oeuvre, which neglects entirely the literary revolution he instigated. Reintroducing the historical into the heart of this body of work, Casanova...

The author's guide to Kindertransport, an invaluable and uniquely authoritative resource for anyone studying, teaching or performing the play. Since it was first staged by the Soho Theatre Company in London in 1993, Diane Samuels' Kindertransport has enjoyed huge success around the world, has...

Esta nueva serie del teatro completo de Tirso de Molina sigue para su publicación el orden de las partes en tomos de tres comedias. El primero de la Primera parte (Doce comedias nuevas del maestro Tirso de Molina) recogía los títulos Palabras y plumas, El pretendiente al revés y El árbol del...

In Pygmalion, Shaw presents the classical story of a professor who transforms a girl of the lower class into an elegant creature, who then falls in love with him—unfortunately in love, that is.   Set in Bulgaria, Arms and the Man satirizes romantic attitudes about love and war. Raina,...

António de Almeida, autor que floreció a mediados del siglo XVII, pertenece a una parcela poco explorada de las letras ibéricas modernas, la de los escritores de nacionalidad portuguesa que se expresaron en castellano. Este libro da a conocer dos de sus obras, que ilustran a su vez una de las corrientes...

Esta investigación contiene el estudio literario de la comedia, la anotación filológica y la edición crítica de la misma. En cuanto al estudio literario, incluye un análisis del momento histórico que da origen a la obra, algunas notas acerca de la recepción de La banda y la flor en España...

The theory that Francis Bacon was, in the main, the author of "Shakespeare's plays," has now been for fifty years before the learned world. Its advocates have met with less support than they had reason to expect. Their methods, their logic, and their hypotheses closely resemble those applied...

El astrólogo fingido, escrita en torno a 1625, a pesar de ser una de las comedias de capa y espada más tempranas escritas por Calderón, constituye una buena muestra del arte que llegó a alcanzar su autor en este tipo de obras, lo que, sin embargo, no se ha reflejado en la presencia editorial de...

Extrait : "Racine n'est pas seulement du nombre de ces auteurs que tout le monde connaît ; mais il est encore du très petit nombre de ceux que tout le monde sait par cœur. Qu'est-ce donc des Observations sur Esther, dira-t-on d'abord ? Qui n'a pas commenté Racine ? Sont-ce les beautés de cette tragédie...