La Celestina
About this book
Celestina is the most remarkable work produced in 15th century Spain and its influence has been enduring and profound. It is a prose dialogue divided into 21 'acts', starting in comedy and ending in tragedy. The story tells of a bachelor, Calisto, who uses the old procuress Celestina to start an affair with Melibea, an unmarried girl kept in seclusion by her parents. Though the two use the rhetoric of courtly love, sex - not marriage - is their aim. When he dies in an accident, Melibea commits suicide after confessing to her father.
Subjects
- bibliography
- classical period
- conduct of life
- drama español
- early works to 1800
- european drama
- facsimiles
- incunabula
- rojas, fernando de, -1541
- rojas, fernando de, d. 1541
- spanish drama
- spanish language
- spanish language books
- teatro espanhol
- teatro español
- textual criticism
- théâtre espagnol
- women