On a remote, fortified homestead in the Andes, a ferocious overlord attempts to rape his daughter and subsequently murders her. In a convent school in Havana, two adolescent girls fall in love with their priest, with fatal consequences. In Spain, a nobleman marries a village girl and an ideal of social equality collides with life's brutal realities. And in Lima, a beautiful and clever actress bamboozles her lover, the governor of Peru. Prosper Merimee, best remembered for his creation of Carmen, wrote these plays - three of them powerfully tragic and the other a delicious comedy - in his late twenties, at the height of his creative powers. They are brought together in this volume in superbly stageworthy translations, preceded by a thorough introduction to Merimee's unjustly neglected body of dramatic works.
| ISBN: | 9780820463087 |
| Publication date: | 4th August 2003 |
| Author: | Prosper Mérimée |
| Publisher: | Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 204 pages |
| Series: | Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures |
| Genres: |
Theatre studies Acting techniques Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 |
On a remote, fortified homestead in the Andes, a ferocious overlord attempts to rape his daughter and subsequently murders her. In a convent school in Havana, two adolescent girls fall in love with their priest, with fatal consequences. In Spain, a nobleman marries a village girl and an ideal of social equality collides with life's brutal realities. And in Lima, a beautiful and clever actress bamboozles her lover, the governor of Peru. Prosper Merimee, best remembered for his creation of Carmen, wrote these plays - three of them powerfully tragic and the other a delicious comedy - in his late twenties, at the height of his creative powers. They are brought together in this volume in superbly stageworthy translations, preceded by a thorough introduction to Merimee's unjustly neglected body of dramatic works.
Prosper Merimee features in the following genres: Theatre studies, Acting techniques, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
Prosper Merimee is available in Paperback
Prosper Merimee was written by Prosper Mérimée and published by Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc.
Prosper Merimee has 204 pages
Yes it is part of Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures series