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In the early 1620's the famous Spanish playwright, Don Pedro Calderón de la Barca, wrote a delightful and suspenseful comedia, The Fake Astrologer, which gained great favor and popularity all over Europe. In fact, there are at least eighteen adaptations of this play in French, English, Italian, Dutch, German, and Spanish, some by no lesser authors than John Dryden and Voltaire. The present work represents the complete «literary biography» of this much-traveled play, including the critical Spanish text, a faithful, modern, rhymed English translation, and a study of the adaptations. A critical appreciation of the comedia will allow the reader to understand how a typical baroque cloak and sword play of the Spanish Golden Age was transmuted to please audiences and readers with different national tastes and preferences. It is hoped that in its present modern English version and with its complete commentary it will prove of equal appeal to the aficionado of good theatre, the student of comparative literature, the Spanish Golden Age specialist, and the larger reading public.
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The Author: Born in New York City, Max Oppenheimer, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Foreign Languages at the State University of New York in Fredonia, was first educated in Germany and France. He received his B ès L degree from the University of Paris and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Southern California. Dr. Oppenheimer has published extensively on French, English, German, Russian, and Spanish subjects. His teaching experience includes being chair of Russian at the University of Iowa and of Foreign Languages at Fredonia. He has also taught English at Yunnan Normal University in China.
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Text: English, Spanish (translation)
Original Language: Spanish
Original Language: Spanish
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- PublisherPeter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0820421669
- ISBN 13 9780820421667
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages258
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