(Applause Books). "As Greek tragedy;" says a Spanish writer; "was composed from the crumbs that fell from Homers table; so the Spanish drama owed its earliest forms to La Celestina (1499)." Fernando de Rojas tragi-comedy which has also been called "a novel in dialogue" runs to about three hundred pages in the James Mabbe translation; here adapted to the stage by Eric Bentley in a five-act version. The central and pervasive situation is a simple one: a dirty old woman is helping a courtly young gentleman to seduce a girl. The wonder of the thing lies in the art with which Fernando do Rojas derives; from such commonplace materials; a towering tragedy or rather; tragi-comedy.
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