Four comedies
By: by Pedro Calderón de la Barca ; translated with an introduction by Kenneth Muir ; with notes to the individual plays by Ann L. Mackenzie
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Lexington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780813153568
Subjects: Translations into English; Spanish drama (Comedy)
Work titles: Plays
Description: 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.
Notes: Originally published: c1980.

Translated from the Spanish.

Includes bibliography (p.291-292).
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