A Companion to Caldern de la Barca by Roy Norton, Jonathan W... - 9781855663152

A Companion to Caldern de la BarcaAuthor(s): Roy Norton, Jonathan W Thacker, D W Cruickshank, Jeremy Robbins, Alejandro Garcia Reidy, Jeremy Lawrance, Colin Thompson, Margaret R Greer, Isabel Hernando, Ignacio Arellano Ayuso\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Tamesis Books\nISBN-13: 9781855663152, 978-1855663152\nSynopsis\nThe first comprehensive study of Caldern in English\n\nPedro Caldern de la Barca [tel] is one of the most important dramatists - many would say the single most important dramatist - of the Spanish Golden Age. Spain's dominant and most prestigious playwright for much of the seventeenth century, his work is still regularly staged and translated, influential in more recent times on writers as diverse as Schiller, Shelley and Lorca. The author of around 120 plays (not counting his numerous Corpus Christi autos) in a variety of styles, Caldern is most famous for his stirring dramas, characterized by rhetorically powerful poe.