Mï¿½gico Prodigioso A Composite Edition and Study of the Manuscript and Printed Versions

Name: Mï¿½gico Prodigioso A Composite Edition and Study of the Manuscript and Printed Versions
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ISBN: 9780198158677

ISBN-10: 019815867X

ISBN-13: 9780198158677

Edition: 1992

Authors: Pedro Calderï¿½n de la Barca, Melveena McKendrick, A. Parker

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There are two surviving versions of Calder'on's play on the Faust theme, El m'agico prodigiosos. The first, preserved in an incomplete autograph manuscript, was written for performance in the town of Yepes on the Feast of Corpus Christi in 1637, with staging appropriate for the traditional Corpus mystery play, the auto sacramental. The second, first published in 1663, is an adaptation for performance in the playhouses of Madrid. The circumstances of the play's textual identity are unique in the seventeenth-century Spanish theater and the purpose of this complete edition is to reveal in action not only the dramatist's developing vision but the imperatives of a remarkable commercial theater…

Book details

List price: $115.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/2/1992
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English

Andrew Parker, University of Reading #60;br#62;#60;p#62;Andrew Herczeg, CSIRO#60;br#62;#60;p#62;Russell Harmon, US Army Research Division