La comedia hagiográfica del Siglo de Oro español

This volume presents ten articles about the Hispanic theatre. It presents over more than 150 pages a range of studies that go from the end of the Middle Ages to the present day of the liturgical dramatization to the process of transforming a collection of poems into a play, from Argentina and Mexico to the Canary Islands and Majorca. It pays attention to certain works ("Davallament de la Creu", the comedies El villano en su rincón, La Varona castellana y El príncipe despeñado by Lope de Vega, the prologues by Antonio de Solís, the Ifigenia by Jovellanos, Nuevo género by Felipe...

Los tiempos recientes muestran cierto mecanismo evolucionista que marca el transito del estilo y las preocupaciones de un autor a traves de distintas fases, procesos y formas de expresion. Sin ceder del todo a la nocion de no marcar distinciones jerarquicas entre los textos de un escritor en el ambito total de su obra, Costa trata de considerarla una unidad organica y la analiza de forma sistematica y objetiva. Poesia, cronica, critica literaria, cuento y teatro, explica, prepararon la entrada de Jose Saramago al territorio de la novela. Asi echa Costa por tierra la idea de que Saramago...

Little mouse decides to pull a prank his friends the bird and the squirrel by telling him that he has seen a blue wolf. What happens when a blue wolf actually appears?

A dazzling sampler, Water Lilies brings to light a rich and until now largely invisible version of Spanish literary history. These hard-to-find works, most translated for the first time, are printed on facing pages in Spanish and English and located within a critical, biographical, and historical overview.