Contributions

  • Edward Fitzgerald (Translator) - Contributor

Publication

2007-06-01 - Kessinger Publishing, LLC

Language

English

Word Count

131,000 words, Guess

Page Count

524 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

Description

Choosing such less famous plays as still seemed to me suited to English taste, and to that form of verse in which our dramatic passion prefers to run, I have, while faithfully trying to retain what was fine and efficient, sunk, reduced, altered, and replaced, much that seemed not; simplified some perplexities; and curtailed or omitted scenes that seemed to mar the breadth of general effect, supplying such omissions by some lines of after-narrative; and in some measure have tried to compensate for the fulness of sonorous Spanish, which Saxon English at least must forgo, by a compression which has its own charm to Saxon ears. - Advertisement.

First Sentence

SCENE I. A Room in DON LUIS' palace at Naples.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Eight Dramas Of CalderonPaperbackKessinger Publishing, LLC2007-06-01

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