El castigo sin venganza (1631) is Lope de Vega's greatest tragedy. The play dramatises the story of the adulterous relationship between the beautiful Casandra, Duchess of Ferrara, and her step-son, Federico, and the reaction of her husband, the Duke, himself a flawed and ambiguous figure. The dramatist, at the height of his powers, re-works an earlier Italian short story to explore the complexities of human desire and the grim consequences of giving in to temptation.
Aimed principally at undergraduates who are new to Spanish Golden Age drama, this edition includes a substantial commentary on the text, explanatory footnotes and a selected vocabulary. The introduction sets the play in its contexts - historical and dramatic - and focuses too on elements of the genre with which new readers might be unfamiliar: performance norms, the poetry of the play and the linguistic differences in Golden Age Spanish.
It is informed by up-to-date scholarship on the play from Spain and the Anglophone world. -- .
| ISBN: | 9780719082306 |
| Publication date: | 1st November 2015 |
| Author: | Jonathan Thacker |
| Publisher: | Manchester University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 232 pages |
| Series: | Hispanic Texts |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: plays and playwrights Plays, playscripts Literary studies: general Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Literature: history and criticism |
El castigo sin venganza (1631) is Lope de Vega's greatest tragedy. The play dramatises the story of the adulterous relationship between the beautiful Casandra, Duchess of Ferrara, and her step-son, Federico, and the reaction of her husband, the Duke, himself a flawed and ambiguous figure.
El Castigo Sin Venganza features in the following genres: Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Plays, playscripts, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literature: history and criticism
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El Castigo Sin Venganza was written by Jonathan Thacker and published by Manchester University Press
El Castigo Sin Venganza has 232 pages
Yes it is part of Hispanic Texts series
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