Spanish & Portuguese

"Well we've got three floors right. Plenty of room... Room for a children's bedroom. Room for two." London, the present day. A woman is driven to the unthinkable by her desperate desire to have a child. Written and directed by Simon Stone, this...

In The House of Bernarda Alba, a tyrannical matriarch rules over her house and five daughters, cruelly crushing their hopes and needs. The other plays here also portray female characters whose desires are tragically and violently frustrated: a woman's...

A bride promised. A blood vow broken. The vengeance of a village released.I want you green. Green wind, green branches. Boat on the ocean. Horse on the mountain. Written in the summer of 1932 with the Spanish civil war looming, Lorca's anarchic...

Shaw began writing MAN AND SUPERMAN in 1901 and determined to write a play that would encapsulate the new century's intellectual inheritance. Shaw drew not only on Byron's verse satire, but also on Shakespeare, the Victorian comedy fashionable in his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788437626321Author Fernando Fernan GomezFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Ediciones Catedra S.A.Publisher Ediciones Catedra S.A.Weight(grams)...

What this book most definitely is not is yet another academic discussion of Lope de Vega, Calderon and their contemporaries, divorced from any understanding of what makes these plays work so brilliantly on our stages. Instead it is a leading contemporary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735271637Author Maravillas LencinaFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Valmar BooksPublisher Valmar BooksWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

Considered one of the outstanding Spanish dramas of all time, this 17th-century allegory explores the mysteries of human destiny, the illusory nature of existence, and the struggle between predestination and free will.About the AuthorPedro Calderon de la...

Lorca's Blood Wedding is a classic of twentieth-century theatre. The story is based on a newspaper fragment which told of a family vendetta and a bride who ran away with the son of the enemy family. Lorca uses it to investigate the subjects which...

"The Mayor of Zalamea, Life's a Dream, The Great Theatre of the World In The Mayor of Zalamea, commissioned by the Royal National Theatre, peasants' honour clashes with military discipline. Life's a Dream is Calderon's most famous philosophical play...

The revised second edition of this practical manual is filled with easy-to-follow exercises and activities designed to facilitate creative drama sessions for people with learning difficulties. The activities in this book bring together music, theatre,...

This anthology of plays from the Spanish Golden Age brings together the work of canonical writers, female writers who are rapidly achieving canonical status, and lesser-known writers who have recently gained critical attention. It contains the full text...

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of...

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of...

One of the most significant playwrights and novelists of the early twentieth century This volume of translations contains Divine Words, a play that draws on pagan, Celtic traditions of the playwright's native Galicia and the repressive Catholicism of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420949728Author Miguel De CervantesFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788437626376Author Lope de VegaFormat PaperbackPage Count 261Imprint Ediciones Catedra S.A.Publisher Ediciones Catedra S.A.Weight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732438149Author World Language Institute SpainFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Christian StahlPublisher Christian StahlWeight(grams)...

In recent years, the English-language theatre has rediscovered Calderon and a number of highly successful productions have been staged. These translations by Gwynne Edwards capture the ferocious spirit of his work in sharp and speakable translation The...

Covering a period of nearly 40 years' work by the author this collection of essays in the Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies series brings the perspective of a Drama academic and practitioner of early English plays to the understanding of...

Punishment without Revenge is a dark and thrilling drama, an audacious blend of unbearable tension and delicious comedy, which both terrifies and delights. Regarded as the greatest tragedy of the Spanish Golden Age and the finest play of its presiding...

Federico Garcia Lorca called The Public "the best thing I've written for the theater." Yet, he acknowledged, "this is for the theater years from now." Now, half a century later, The Public and another of Lorca's most daring works, Play without a Title,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788441432260Author Federico Garcia LorcaPage Count 208Imprint Editorial Edaf S.A.Publisher Editorial Edaf S.A.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912399079Author Nuno Pereira CastanheiraFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Splash EditionsPublisher Splash EditionsWeight(grams) 145g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593934941Author Carlos Benitez SerranoFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999654399Author Federico Garcia LorcaFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Clapton Press LimitedPublisher Clapton Press LimitedWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588713964Author Alarcon Juan Ruiz deFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Juan de La Cuesta-Hispanic MonographsPublisher Juan de La Cuesta-Hispanic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420964059Author Pedro Calderon De La BarcaFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 95g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588713711Author Ana Caro Mallen de SotoFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Juan de La Cuesta-Hispanic MonographsPublisher Juan de La Cuesta-Hispanic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789391560508Author Pedro Calderón de la BarcaFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Sanage Publishing HousePublisher Sanage Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 154g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839541315Author Komla AggorFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942956341Author Catalina CastillonFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Lamar University PressPublisher Lamar University PressWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390015962Author José EchegarayFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 145g

Generally credited as the creator of Don Juan, one of the most famous characters in literature, Tirso de Molina (1580-1648) is largely unknown to English readers. He wrote within an extraordinary literary milieu (the Spanish Golden Age--Velazquez,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781889695Author Christopher ColbathFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research...

Juan Mayorga: Six Plays is the first collection of Spanish dramatist Juan Mayorga's plays in English, offering a compelling insight into the extraordinary range and quality of one of the Spanish-speaking world's most distinctive voices.The six plays are...

Remarkable products of a nation deeply implicated in the Atlantic slave trade, the seventeenth-century Spanish plays Juan Latino, The Brave Black Soldier, and Virtues Overcome Appearances appear together in English for the first time in this volume. The...

In addition to a substantial introduction to the life and works of Federico Garcia Lorca -- avant-garde poet, playwright, and soul of Spain's "Generation of '27" -- this collection features vibrant new English translations of four of his plays...

This vital anthology includes fresh translations of four of Paco Bezerra's plays in one edited collection for the first time in English. Winner of the National Literary Drama Award in 2009 and the Calderon de la Barca Theatre Drama Prize for New Authors...