Celestina Or The Tragicke Comedy Of Calisto And Melibea

Author : Fernando De Rojas
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781332899715
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Celestina, Or the Tragicke-Comedy of Calisto and Melibea written by Fernando De Rojas and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-06-24 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Celestina, or the Tragicke-Comedy of Calisto and Melibea: Englished From the Spanish The questions of ascription and classification are hard to answer. The very form of the Celestina has varied more than that of most. In its earliest edition, as in its second, the thing is but sixteen scenes long. In its final shape it consists of the twenty-one divisions here 'put into English cloathes by James Mabbe; but at least three sixteenth century reprints present an additional scene for Traso and his bezonians - discarded, probably, as the work of another hand. Critics have argued about this matter and about these holding the book a novel, those a drama. But a novel in dialogue, a novel without narrative, is almost a contradiction in terms; and though the length of the Celestina makes it impossible to play, the spirit of the dialogue, the transitions of incident, and the build of the plot are essentially dramatic. All the same, its imitators and its plagiaries apart, its effect is marked to far stronger purpose in the Spanish novel than in the Spanish drama. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.