Hymen Alpern
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Leandro and Crispín arrive to a prosperous small city seeking a strike of good luck to improve their lives. Given that Leandro is the youngest and more handsome of them, they decide that he will play the role of a young and attractive lord travelling with his assistant, played by Crispín. With this fake identity, Leandro wants to seduce the daughter of the richest and most powerful man in town, Polichinela. Thus, the difficult path of making their...
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This is an omnibus volume comprising ten of the best-known plays of the most representative Spanish dramatists of the Golden Age. The publication of this collection seems to be justifiable not only because each play has intrinsic literary merit, but also because there is no other similar anthology, and the individual plays are not readily obtainable and are expensive. Furthermore, the growing publication of omnibus volumes for the study of a foreign...