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1	Classic Spanish Stories and Plays more books like this by Marcel Charles Andrade, Andrade Marcel add to wishlist Spanning "El Cid" (1140) to "El Burlador De Sevilla" (1630), "Classic Spanish Stories and Plays" contains eight great Spanish classics works including "Don Quixote", one of the masterpieces of world literature. Expertly abridged and adapted for the intermediate learner, each tale and play includes ample cultural notes and translations of difficult ... see all copies from $4.17! new only from $10.34! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Life is a Dream more books like this by Pedro Calderon de La Barca add to wishlist Pedro Caldern de la Barca was a dramatist of the Spanish Golden Age, which occurred in the 1600's. Calderon was educated in a Jesuit college with plans to become a priest, but instead he studied law. Over two decades he wrote 70 secular plays for the commercial theatre. Life is a Dream is a three act play considered to be the best work by Calderon ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
3	The Golden Age: Poems of the Spanish Renaissance more books like this by Edith Grossman (Translator), Billy Collins (Introduction by) add to wishlist The Spanish Renaissance comes to life in its greatest poems, rendered here with passionate fervour and a stylistic brilliance. Edith Grossman's new translations of forty great poems are presented with facing-page Spanish, an introduction and biographies of the poets. Included are: Jorge Manrique (not translated since Longfellow); Garcilaso de la ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
4	No Ordinary Man: The Life and Times of Miguel de Cervantes more books like this by Donald McCrory add to wishlist This thoroughly researched biography of Cervantes covers the important events of his life and also tackles the mystery of the enduring appeal through the centuries of his masterpiece, DON QUIXOTE. The author also discusses--and heartily recommends--Cervantes' lesser works, particularly his late novellas and his plays. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.66! \| SVS
5	Life Is a Dream/La Vida Es Sueno: A Dual-Language Book by Pedro Calderon de La Barca, Pedro Calderon de La Barca, Stanley Appelbaum (Translator) add to wishlist Exploring the conflict between free will and predestination, Calderon's most famous play tells of Segismundo, a Polish prince, imprisoned at birth by his father, the King, to thwart the predictions of astrologers. The dual-language edition features an excellent new literal translation on pages facing the original Spanish text. Introduction, Notes ... see all copies from $5.75! new only from $5.95! \| SVS
6	Writing in the Margin: Spanish Literature of the Golden Age more books like this by Paul Julian Smith add to wishlist This book, the first study of its kind to adopt a post-structuralist viewpoint, offers new readings of the major texts of the Spanish Renaissance, or Golden Age. Beginning with a comparison of Renaissance and modern theories of discourse, the main substance of the book appeals to terms borrowed from Jacques Derrida for the analysis of the three ... see all copies from $26.10! new only from $110.41! \| SVS
7	The Man Who Was Don Quixote: The Story of Miguel Cervantes more books like this by Rafaello Busoni add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
8	Majesty and Humanity: Kings and Their Doubles in the Political Drama of the Spanish Golden Age more books like this by Alban K Forcione add to wishlist In the Golden Age of Spanish Theatre, an age of highly dramatized coronations and regal spectacles, Alban Forcione has discovered a surprising but persistent preoccupation with the disrobing of the king. In both the celebrations of majesty and the enthrallment with its unveiling, he finds the chilling recesses in which a culture struggled to ... see all copies from $34.95! new only from $52.56! \| SVS
9	Renaissance and Baroque Poetry of Spain more books like this by Elias L. Rivers (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $9.95! new only from $63.16!
10	Poesia Lirica del Siglo de Oro more books like this by Elias L Rivers add to wishlist Este volumen abarca una gran epoca de la poesia espanola renacentista y barroca y en el se ofrece una amplia muestra de la obra de sus principales representantes desde Garcilaso de la Vega y Herrera, pasando por Fray Luis de Leon y San Juan de la Cruz hasta los mas importantes barrocos como Lope de Vega, Gongora, Quevedo y muchos otros. Puede ... see all copies from $12.57! new only from $12.57! \| SVS
11	Ideologies History Spanish - Ppr. more books like this by Professor Anthony J Cascardi add to wishlist Examining the literature of the Golden Age as the point at which tensions between the old and the new converged, this text looks at how Spanish writers envisioned history and studies how these visions revealed or concealed contradictions between social values of their time. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.63! \| first editions \| SVS
12	"Celestina"'s Brood: Continuities of the Baroque in Spanish and Latin American Literature more books like this by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria, Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria, Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria add to wishlist Published in 1499 and centered on the figure of a bawd and witch, Fernando de Rojas' dark and disturbing "Celestina "was destined to become the most suppressed classic in Spanish literary history. Routinely ignored in Spanish letters, the book nonetheless echoes through contemporary Spanish and Latin American literature. This is the phenomenon ... see all copies from $3.40! new only from $4.98!
13	Marrano Poets of the Seventeenth Century: An Anthology of the Poetry of Joao Pinto Delgado, Antonio Enriquez Gomez, and Miguel de Barrios more books like this by Timothy Oelman (Editor) add to wishlist The story of the Marranos (the Jewish converts to Christianity in Spain and Portugal) has long been a source of fascination for Jews interested in their heritage and for all those concerned with the struggle for freedom of conscience against authoritarianism. In this volume are presented the selected works of three Marrano poets, together with ... see all copies from $12.00! new only from $26.04! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Persephone's Girdle: Narratives of Rape in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Literature more books like this by Marcia L Welles add to wishlist A gender-inflected reinterpretation of secular Spanish texts of the early modern period that focuses on sexual violence as expressive of cultural and political issues. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
15 view cover	El Perro del Hortelano more books like this by Lope De Vega add to wishlist En esta obra dramatica de Lope, version aristocratica de las comedias de "capa y espada," el honor se salva por la mentira, dando asi ocasion a situaciones confusas y enredos divertidos. La ironia del autor reside en hacer de los dichos populares que aparecen en los titulos una cuestion de formas. see all copies from $4.95! new only from $8.95! \| SVS
16	Apples of Gold in Filigrees of Silver more books like this by Colbert I Nepaulsingh add to wishlist When the Inquisition was established in Spain in 1478, books considered dangerous or threatening were denounced as mute heretics and, like their authors and others were examined, sentenced, and either expurgated or burned. This book describes how some writers defied and thwarted persecution by writing works whose hidden meaning was apparent only ... see all copies from $3.19! new only from $5.98! \| first editions
17 view cover	Seventeenth-Century Spanish Poetry more books like this by Arthur Terry add to wishlist This is the first comprehensive study in English of one of the most important bodies of verse in European literature. Seventeenth-century Spanish poetry represents the culmination of a rich Renaissance tradition, and Professor Terry sets out to make this accessible not only to Hispanists but to readers of English, French and Italian poetry, with ... see all copies from $48.82! new only from $48.82! \| SVS
18 view cover	Diez Comedias del Siglo de Oro more books like this by Jose Martel, Hymen Alpern, Leonard Mades (Designer) add to wishlist see all copies from $2.20! new only from $57.58! \| first editions
19	Cervantes, a Biography more books like this by William Byron add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.00! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Language, Text, Subject: A Critique of Hispanism more books like this by Malcolm K Read add to wishlist Rereading canonic Spanish texts from Renaissance humanism to modernist literature, Read deploys a theoretical basis of post-structuralist thinking to offer a critique of traditional Hispanism in the light of its assumption of a transcendental subject and its corresponding insistence on the autonomy of the literary text. see all copies from $2.10! new only from $91.41! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Women's Acts-Pa more books like this by Teresa Scott Soufas (Editor), Theresa S Soufas (Editor), Theresa S Saufas (Editor) add to wishlist The plays are in Spanish. Los papeles estAn en el espaAol. see all copies from $4.23! new only from $41.26!
22	Texto y Espectaculo: Selected Proceedings of the Symposium on Spanish Golden Age Theater more books like this by Barbara Mujica add to wishlist 55.50 see all copies from $4.39! new only from $13.08!
23 view cover	Discourses of Empire: Counter-Epic Literature in Early Modern Spain more books like this by Barbara Simerka add to wishlist The counter-epic is a literary style that developed in reaction to imperialist epic conventions as a means of scrutinizing the consequences of foreign conquest of dominated peoples. This work covers the representation of militant Christian imperialism in early modern Spanish literature. see all copies from $23.75! new only from $23.75! \| SVS
24	Spain and the Western Tradition: The Castilian Mind in Literature from El Cid to Calderon more books like this by Otis H Green add to wishlist see all copies from $4.08! first editions
25	Estudios sobre teatro español clásico y contemporáneo more books like this by Francisco Ruiz Ramón add to wishlist see all copies from $26.32!

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