Celestina, or, The tragi-comedy of Calisto and Melibea / translated from the Spanish by James Mabbe, anno 1631 ; also An interlude of Calisto and Melebea (for the first time accurately reproduced from the original copy) printed by John Rastell, circa 1530 ; edited, with introduction on the picaresque novel, and appendices, by H. Warner Allen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rojas, Fernando de, -1541.

Contributor:

Mabbe, James, 1572-1642?

Allen, H. Warner (Herbert Warner), 1881-1968.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Broadway translations

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Picaresque literature.

Genre:

Picaresque literature.

Physical Description:

xvi, 345 pages ; 22 cm.

Other Title:

Calisto and Melebea.

Place of Publication:

London : G. Routledge & Sons, Ltd. ; New York : E.P. Dutton & Co., [1923]

Notes:

Mabbe's translation first published under the pseudonym Don Diego Puede-Ser, with title: The Spanish bawd, represented in Celestina, or, The tragicke-comedy of Calisto and Melibea. London, 1631.

"A general outline of the rise of realism in the prose fiction of Spain, England, and France as illustrated by the picaresque novel and kindred works": p. viii-xix.

Appendix I. Critical notes -- II. On the authorship and early history of the Comedia o tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea -- III. An interlude of Calisto and Melebea.

OCLC:

551631