{"product_id":"celestina-9780936839011","title":"Celestina","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Fernando De Rojas\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Applause Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Applause Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Theater - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"As Greek tragedy \" says a Spanish writer, \"was composed from the crumbs that fell from Homer's table, so the Spanish drama owed its earliest forms to La Celestina (1499).\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFernando de Rojas' tragi-comedy - which has also been called \"a novel in dialogue\" - runs to about three hundred pages in the James Mabbe translation, here adapted to the stage by Eric Bentley in a five-act, 93-page version. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe central and pervasive situation is a simple one: a dirty old woman is helping a courtly young gentleman to seduce a girl. The wonder of the thing lies in the art with which Fernando do Rojas derives, from such commonplace materials, a towering tragedy - or rather, tragi-comedy.","brand":"Applause Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45410110570647,"sku":"9780936839011","price":1279.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780936839011.webp?v=1767312488","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/celestina-9780936839011","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}