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La dama y galán Aquiles: el monstruo de los jardines
Se presenta aqui la primera edicion critica de la comedia mitologica La dama y galan Aquiles de Pedro Calderon de la Barca (habitualmente llamada El monstruo de los jardines). El estudio introductorio que acompana la obra arroja nueva luz sobre esta pieza representativa de la comedia mitologica calderoniana. La editora aborda las claves clasicas en las que se inspira el autor y presenta las fuentes del la obra de autores latinos que pudieron inspirar al dramaturgo, asi como la de sus contemporaneos barrocos. La introduccion profundiza tambien en la intertextualidad con otras obras calderonianas. Esta edicion presenta un estudio musical de dos representaciones de la comedia, una en Espana y la otra en La Plata (la actual Sucre), a principios del siglo XVIII. La fuerza escenica calderoniana se manifiesta al insuflar vitalidad a la mitologia y adecuar a su epoca la preocupacion sobre el ser y el destino a traves del episodio de Aquiles en el gineceo.
324 pages, Hardcover
Published December 4, 2013
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Pedro Calderón de la Barca
1,775 books281 followersPedro Calderón de la Barca y Henao was a dramatist of the Spanish Golden Age.
Calderón initiated what has been called the second cycle of Spanish Golden Age theatre. Whereas his predecessor, Lope de Vega, pioneered the dramatic forms and genres of Spanish Golden Age theatre, Calderón polished and perfected them. Whereas Lope's strength lay in the sponteneity and naturalness of his work, Calderón's strength lay in his capacity for poetic beauty, dramatic structure and philosophical depth. Calderón was a perfectionist who often revisited and reworked his plays, even long after they debuted. This perfectionism was not just limited to his own work: many of his plays rework existing plays or scenes by other dramatists, improving their depth, complexity, and unity. (Many European playwrights of the time, such as Molière, Corneille and Shakespeare, reworked old plays in this way.) Calderón excelled above all others in the genre of the "auto sacramental", in which he showed a seemingly inexhaustible capacity to giving new dramatic forms to a given set of theological constructs. Calderón wrote 120 "comedias", 80 "autos sacramentales" and 20 short comedic works called "entremeses"
Calderón initiated what has been called the second cycle of Spanish Golden Age theatre. Whereas his predecessor, Lope de Vega, pioneered the dramatic forms and genres of Spanish Golden Age theatre, Calderón polished and perfected them. Whereas Lope's strength lay in the sponteneity and naturalness of his work, Calderón's strength lay in his capacity for poetic beauty, dramatic structure and philosophical depth. Calderón was a perfectionist who often revisited and reworked his plays, even long after they debuted. This perfectionism was not just limited to his own work: many of his plays rework existing plays or scenes by other dramatists, improving their depth, complexity, and unity. (Many European playwrights of the time, such as Molière, Corneille and Shakespeare, reworked old plays in this way.) Calderón excelled above all others in the genre of the "auto sacramental", in which he showed a seemingly inexhaustible capacity to giving new dramatic forms to a given set of theological constructs. Calderón wrote 120 "comedias", 80 "autos sacramentales" and 20 short comedic works called "entremeses"
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