Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceCelestina, madam of the local brothel, is commissioned by a nobleman to help him seduce a beautiful young woman. Using all her wiles and with the help of two greedy servants she goes about weaving her spells... with tragic results.Fernando de Rojas' play Celestina has been a pivotal work of European culture since 1499, when it was first performed, and the character of the ever resourceful procuress Celestina has inspired artists from Goya to Picasso.This version of Celestina, translated by Jo Clifford, was first performed at the King's Theatre, Edinburgh, in August 2004, as part of the Edinburgh International Festival.This edition of the play, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series, includes an introduction by Jo Clifford.

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Utgivningsdatum:2004-05-08
Mått:112 x 178 x 33 mm
Vikt:139 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Drama Classics
Antal sidor:128
Förlag:Nick Hern Books
ISBN:9781854598189
Översättare:Jo Clifford, John Clifford

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Fernando de Rojas (c. 1465/73–1541) was a Spanish author and dramatist, known for his only surviving work, La Celestina (originally titled Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea), first published in 1499.Jo Clifford (formerly known as John Clifford) is an award-winning playwright, translator, poet and performer, who has also worked as a journalist and academic. She was instrumental in establishing the reputation of the Traverse Theatre Company in the 1980s.She is the author of about eighty plays, many of which have been performed all over the world. They include: Losing Venice, Every One, Faust and The Tree of Knowledge. Her adaptation of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations makes her the first openly transgendered woman playwright to have had a play on in London’s West End.