{"product_id":"spite-for-spite-great-translations-for-actors","title":"Spite for Spite (Great translations for actors)","description":"\u003cp\u003eProduct Description\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpite 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.\u003cbr\u003eWhen 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.\u003cbr\u003eWith an introduction, bibliography, and full textual notes for actors and scholars by the translator, and original settings for the songs by composer Carl Smith.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What's astonishing is the bounding life Dakin Matthews has liberated here....\" -- Robert Cornthwaite\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA startling work that brings to us an inexplicably neglected Spanish classic. -- Lillian Garrett-Groag\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA treasure. Executed with a scholar's thoroughness, a playwright's wit, and an actor's sense of spontaneous fun. -- Mark Harelik\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Author\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDakin 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 141\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Smith and Kraus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781575250021\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Smith and Kraus","offers":[{"title":"Standard Secondhand — £20.25","offer_id":47901430743217,"sku":"SB-1575250020-C3","price":20.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/1575250020.jpg?v=1789802274","url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/spite-for-spite-great-translations-for-actors","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}