Description
Book SynopsisAn authoritative new critical edition of Lope de Vega's best and best-known play that includes an introduction, commentary, selected vocabulary and footnotes for the English-speaking student. -- .
Trade Review'Likely to become a set text on Spanish courses in the UK, US and anywhere else that Golden Age drama features.'
Alexander Samson, University College London
‘Jonathan Thacker is to be highly commended for producing a thoroughly accessible edition of and companion to what is undoubtedly Lope’s greatest tragedy, and clearly one of the great plays of the early modern period that is finally, if belatedly, getting the recognition it deserves both on the page and on the stage.’
Susan L. Fischer, Bucknell University, BSS, XCV (2018)
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Table of Contents1. Introduction
Lope de Vega
The text of the play
The context of the play
The sources of the play
Interpretations of and critical responses to the play
The play in performance
The play’s poetry
Notes on the play-text and on Golden Age Spanish
2. Bibliography
3. El castigo sin venganza
Acto primero
Acto segundo
Acto tercero
4. Commentary
5. Selected vocabulary
Index
