El Castigo Sin Venganza: Lope De Vega Carpio (Hispanic Texts) - Softcover

Thacker, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0719082307 ISBN 13: 9780719082306

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2015

Synopsis

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.

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About this title

About the Author

Jonathan Thacker is Professor of Golden Age Spanish Literature at the University of Oxford and Tutor in Spanish at Merton College

From the Back Cover

El castigo sin venganza (1631) is Lope de Vega's greatest tragedy.
The dramatist, at the height of his powers, re-works an Italian
short story to explore the complexities of human desire and the grim
consequences of giving in to temptation. The play dramatises 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.

This edition includes an introduction which sets the play in its
historical and dramatic contexts but also focuses 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. The text
itself is accompanied by explanatory footnotes, an in-depth commentary and
a glossary of less common words. These are informed by up-to-date
scholarship on the play from both the Spanish and Anglophone worlds.

While this edition of Lope's masterpiece will be of particular use to
undergraduates who are new to Spanish Golden Age drama, it will also
appeal to students at higher levels and all admirers of Spanish Golden
Age theatre.

From the Inside Flap

El castigo sin venganza (1631) is Lope de Vega's greatest tragedy.The dramatist, at the height of his powers, re-works an Italianshort story to explore the complexities of human desire and the grimconsequences of giving in to temptation. The play dramatises the adulterous relationship between the beautiful Casandra, duchess ofFerrara, and her step-son Federico, and the reaction of her husband, the duke,himself a flawed and ambiguous figure.This edition includes an introduction which sets the play in itshistorical and dramatic contexts but also focuses on elements of the genrewith which new readers might be unfamiliar: performance norms, the poetryof the play and the linguistic differences in Golden Age Spanish. The textitself is accompanied by explanatory footnotes, an in-depth commentary anda glossary of less common words. These are informed by up-to-datescholarship on the play from both the Spanish and Anglophone worlds.While this edition of Lope's masterpiece will be of particular use toundergraduates who are new to Spanish Golden Age drama, it will alsoappeal to students at higher levels and all admirers of Spanish GoldenAge theatre.

Edition details

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0719082307
• ISBN 13: 9780719082306
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232
• Editor: Thacker Jonathan