This is the first critical edition and extended study of one of Calderon's most fascinating and neglected later works, La aurora en Copacabana, first published in the dramatist's Quarta parte. The exceptionally longplay (over 4,200 lines) dramatises the Spanish conquest of Peru and the evangelisation of the Incas in the sixteenth century. The vivid, dense, spectacular drama displays a number of Calderon's characteristic concerns and techniques in an intriguing form.
Dr Engling's study includes a full introduction with a discussion of the various extant versions, a discussion of the plot, structure and staging of the play and a detailed examination of its themes and attitudes, relating them to other works ofCalderon.
EZRA S. ENGLING is Professor of Spanish at Texas A & M International University, Laredo.
- ISBN10 1855660156
- ISBN13 9781855660151
- Publish Date 16 March 1995
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 28 May 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Imprint Tamesis Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 264
- Language English