Nineteenth Century Spanish Plays

Claris de Florian, Jean-Pierre. (1755-1794). NUMA POMPILIO, SEGUNDO REY DE ROMA, Poema del Caballero de Florian, Puesto en Castellano Por el Traductor de las Veladas de la Quinta. Nueva Edicion. 2 volumes. Madrid: Don Benito Cano, 1818.

- 12mo [5-1/2 inches high by 3-1/2 inches wide], brown calf with gilt-lettered tan & black leather labels between decorative gilt rules & vignettes on the spines; gilt dentelles & marbled endpapers & edges. The covers are bumped & lightly rubbed. The head & tail of the Vol. 1 spine are chipped & the lower inch of the front joint is split. There is a piece out of the tail of the Vol. 2 spine & the bottom of its front joint & the head of the spine are chipped. The marbling on the edges is almost completely faded. 208 pages; and 239 pages. There is an 1823 gift inscription on the verso of the Vol. 1 front endpaper, with the owner's ink name dated 1828 on the verso of each title & on the verso of the Vol. 1 half-title. There is some dampstaining to the edges of the pastedowns & endpapers with very light dampstaining to the prelims & slight rippling to the top corners of the Vol. 1 pages. There are small pieces out of the Vol. 1 half-title & the Vol. 2 rear endpaper. There is occasional minor foxing. Good. <p>Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian, whose mother was of Spanish origin, was born into a noble family and was the nephew of Voltaire, who inspired him with a love of literature by having him read La Fontaine's Fables at the age of ten. He wrote plays and poetry and translated Cervantes' "La Galatea". Among his historical novels was the present work, written in 1786. He was made a member of the Academie Francaise in 1788. He was arrested during the French Revolution, escaped the guillotine at the time of the fall of Robespierre, but died at the age of 39, in part from the effects of his imprisonment.<p>The text is in Spanish.

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Lewis E. Brett: Nineteenth Century Spanish Plays, Appleton-Century-Crofts
100% Money Back Guarantee. Shipped daily. Over one million satisfied book lovers read with Experienced Books. 1935. Hardcover. Very Good condition, showing little signs of wear. Cover is just beginning to separate from binding.

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Krawitz, H. A Post-Symbolist Bibliography. The Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, first edition, 1973.
Roughly two-thirds of this work is devoted to bibliographies of the criticm and interpretation on individual authors, poets and dramatists, covering : Bely / Blok / Briusov, Benn, Bonnefoy, Brennan, Darlo, T.S. Eliot, George, Guillen, Hofmannsthal, Jimenez, Lorca, Rilke, Stevens, Ungaretti, Valery, Vallejo and Yeats. The remainder is divided into three more general sections, with the first including books and articles which purport to deal with post-symbolism from a supranational perspective; many of the works listed in this section are concerned with questions of theory and definition of the movement. The second section is primarily national in scope and the third is reserved for studies involving two or more literary figures; the question of influence is specifically dealt with here. The bibliography is comparative in nature, with special emphasis upon recently-published criticism (1950-1970) written in English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian. Attention has also been given to books and articles (written in English) which deal with other national literatures (e.g. Russian). With an index of authors.

Cloth, 8vo, 284 pp. 4141 entries. Covers slightly marked, otherwise very good.

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Gies, David T.. The Theatre in Nineteenth-Century Spain. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0521380464 Signed by Author Unread copy. Signed and inscribed by author on title page. This is the first comprehensive study of the theatre of nineteenth-century Spain, a most important genre which produced more than 10,000 plays during the course of the century. David Gies assesses this mass of material - much of it hitherto unknown - as text, spectacle, and social phenomenon. His book sheds light on political drama during Napoleonic times, the theatre of dictatorship (1820s), Romanticism, women dramatists, socialist drama, neo-Romantic drama, the relationship between parody and the dominant literary currents of the day, and the challenging work of Galdos. A chapter on the battle to create a National Theatre reveals the deep conflicts generated by the various interested factions in the middle of the century. 392pp..

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