You might also like

Availability alert

More about Tirso de Molina: Damned for Despair

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 379 loyalty points

Book synopsis

Fray Gabriel T llez, who wrote under the pen-name of Tirso de Molina, is the third great dramatist (with Lope de Vega and Calder n) of the 17th century Spanish theatre. If Lope heads all the rest for sheer inventive vitality and Calder n for well-wrought poetic and intellectual substance, Tirso is supreme as a creator of character. Best known for his Trickster of Seville, the original Don Juan play, he produced others no less remarkable, of which Damned for Despair is one of the greatest. Paulo, the hermit whose obsession with his own salvation drives him to rebel against God, and Enrico, the Neapolitan gangster, drawn to repentance in spite of himself, are creations just as memorable as Don Juan Tenorio. Their strangely linked destinies make for a spiritual and psychological drama of extraordinary intensity and continuing relevance.

Book details

Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Plays, playscripts

• Full title: Tirso de Molina: Damned for Despair
• Author: Tirso De Molina
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 300
• EAN: 9780856683299
• ISBN: 0856683299
• ID: 04741360
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Weight: 590 g
• Dimensions: 210 × 149 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. January 1986

Trending among others

---

---

---