Damned for despair El Condenado por desconfiado
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Damned for despair = El Condenado por desconfiado
(Hispanic classics, Golden-Age drama)
Aris & Phillips, c1986
- pbk.
- Uniform Title
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Condenado por desconfiado
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Note
Distributor from label on verso of t.p
Bibliography: p. xi-xvii
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Fray Gabriel TUllez, who wrote under the pen-name of Tirso de Molina, is the third great dramatist (with Lope de Vega and Calder3/4n) of the 17th century Spanish theatre. If Lope heads all the rest for sheer inventive vitality and Calder3/4n for well-wrought poetic and intellectual substance, Tirso is supreme as a creator of character. Best known for his Trickster of Seville, the original Don Juan play, he produced others no less remarkable, of which Damned for Despair is one of the greatest. Paulo, the hermit whose obsession with his own salvation drives him to rebel against God, and Enrico, the Neapolitan gangster, drawn to repentance in spite of himself, are creations just as memorable as Don Juan Tenorio. Their strangely linked destinies make for a spiritual and psychological drama of extraordinary intensity and continuing relevance.
Table of Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Introduction
i. El condenado por desconfiado and its author
ii. Dating, sources, doctrine
iii. The making of El condenado: Themes, forms and characters
iv. The poetry of El codenado por desconfiado the translation
Notes to the introduction
The play and commentary
introductory note
Act one Jornada primera
Act two Jornada segunda
Act three Jornada tercera
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