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Spite for Spite(Great translations for actors)
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Spite for Spite is a new American translation, originally commissioned by the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, of the 17th century Spanish masterpiece El desden con el desden by Agustin Moreto, Calderon's most successful disciple. One of the most popular comedies in the classical Spanish repertoire, this witty battle of the sexes has been translated for the first time from the original Golden Age Castilian into clear and playable English verse, maintaining all the intricate rhyme schemes, elaborate wordplay, romantic poetry, and inspired foolery of the original.
When a man who finds himself irresistible falls for a woman who thinks herself immovable, the verbal and emotional fireworks fly, as he decides to woo her precisely by not wooing her, to fight fire with fire, or in this case, ice with ice - disdain with disdain, spite for spite.
With an introduction, bibliography, and full textual notes for actors and scholars by the translator, and original settings for the songs by composer Carl Smith.
Review
"What's astonishing is the bounding life Dakin Matthews has liberated here...." -- Robert Cornthwaite
A startling work that brings to us an inexplicably neglected Spanish classic. -- Lillian Garrett-Groag
A treasure. Executed with a scholar's thoroughness, a playwright's wit, and an actor's sense of spontaneous fun. -- Mark Harelik
About the Author
Dakin Matthews is currently the Manager of the Antaeus Company at the Mark Taper Forum and a dramaturge for the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego. For five years he was the Artistic Director of the Berkley Shakespeare Festival, and before that of the California Actors Theatre. He is an Emeritus Professor of English at California State University Hayward and has acted, taught, and directed in major theatres and training schools across the country. His scripts-adaptations, translations, originals-have been performed in many major regional theatres. Mr. Matthews has appeared in over 150 professional plays, thirty feature films, and over 100 television shows.
Format: Paperback
Published: 1995
Pages: 141
Publisher: Smith and Kraus
ISBN: 9781575250021
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- Poor Condition - Usually this will have a specific problem such as writing inside, water damage, missing dust jacket, heavy staining, large creases or cuts. These are readable copies but not nice ones. On other websites this condition is called 'Acceptable' or 'Fair' , but we want to be more honest.
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