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Author Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681

Title Four comedies / by Pedro Calderón de la Barca ; translated with an introd ; by Kenneth Muir ; with notes to the individual plays by Ann L. Mackenzie
Published Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©1980

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Description 1 online resource (304 pages)
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; From Bad to Worse; The Secret Spoken Aloud; The Worst Is Not Always Certain; The Advantages & Disadvantages Of a Name; Notes; Bibliography
Summary Calderón, the great dramatist of Spain's Golden Age, was a skilled writer of comedy. His serious dramas have long been highly regarded in the English-speaking world, but his many sparkling comedies are an untapped reservoir for the contemporary theater. The four plays in this volume, three of which appear in English for the first time, have been translated by Kenneth Muir, the noted British scholar and director. These are comedies of intrigue. They turn on mysterious, quarrels, and jealousies, and they abound in complication and misunderstandings, yet in the end all is explained, to the delight
Analysis Calderón de la Barca, Pedro Translations into English
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
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Subject Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681 -- Translations into English
Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681
DRAMA -- Continental European.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Drama.
Genre/Form Translations
Form Electronic book
Author Muir, Kenneth
ISBN 9780813163758
0813163757
Other Titles Plays. Selections. English