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A critical edition of the original version of Calderón’s masterpiece, based on the text contained in the Zaragoza Parte (1636). Now republished for the first time since the seventeenth century, the "Zaragoza" version is preceded by a lengthy introductory study in which Ruano offers important evidence and new deductions convincingly to establish that Calderón wrote two versions of La vida es sueño (Life’s a Dream): a first version – the "Zaragoza" play, written probably before 1630 and primarily for performance – and a revised version (1635) for publication in the "Primera parte" of ...

Antonio Perez, the brilliant but erratic secretary to Philip II of Spain, became in the years of his exile a political agent in the service of the Earl of Essex, arriving at the Court of Queen Elizabeth in 1593. On behalf of Essex, who valued him as a friend, a partner and a humanist scholar, he cast an intelligence network over Italy; and he made a striking, though dangerous, contribution to the Essex cult.

Fourteen critical essays on Carlos Rojas, one of the leading contemporary Spanish novelists, and winner of the Premio Nacional de Literatura, the Premio Planeta and the Premio Nadal. A study of characterization, symbolism, time, magic, and death, makes this the most important and comprehensive examination of Rojas' outstanding novelistic contributions

Este libro estudia el género de las adivinanzas desde dos miradas –la española y la mexicana– representaciones de dos tradiciones hispánicas, mostrando lo que las acerca y lo que las aleja, las semejanzas y las diferencias, en sus variantes, en su temática, en su léxico, en su estilo, en su métrica o en su estructura. Estas dos tradiciones se han armonizado a través de los siglos, como testimonio de un encuentro que ha resultado afortunado y que es muestra de la riqueza y versatilidad de un patrimonio cultural, más allá de los límites temporales y espaciales. Si en España es...