El Condestable de Sicilia (Ediciones Criticas, #88)
by Jose Zorrilla
Children of Fate was written in 1981 and is a fascinating, passionate and humorous testament to the forgotten lives of the dispossessed and marginalised in General Pinochet’s Chile. 2013 is the fortieth anniversary of the year Pinochet seized power in a vicious coup.
Las paces de los reyes y jud�a de Toledo (Teatro, #430)
by Lope De Vega
La Devoción de la Misa (Ediciones Criticas, #100)
by Luis Velez de Guevara
Treatments of religion found in Spanish cinema range from the pious to the anticlerical and atheistic, and every position in between. In a nation with a strong Catholic tradition, resistance to and rebellion against religious norms go back almost as far as the notion of “Sacred Spain.” Religion and Spanish Film provides a sustained study of the religious film genre in Spain practiced by mainstream Francoist film makers, the evolving iconoclasm, parody, and reinvention of the Catholic by internat...
The House of Bernarda Alba: a modern adaptation
by Federico Garcia Lorca and Rona Munro
Following the gangland execution of her husband, the formidable matriarch Bernarda Alba will do anything to safeguard her family's dubious fortune and the future of her five daughters. A deal is struck - a marriage of convenience between her eldest girl and the son of a business rival. All Bernarda has to do is ensure that the wedding happens, and quickly. Five headstrong daughters cooped up in the family home in an emotionally charged atmosphere of bitter rivalry and repressed sexuality make th...
