San Antonio College Library

Translations of four complete dramas by critically acclaimed contemporary Spanish playwrights.

A seventeenth century Spanish play dramatizes the relationships between Dorotea, a young lady, and Don Fernando, a poor poet thirty years her senior.

"The drama of the Golden Age (Siglo de Oro) is Spain's most extensive literary achievement. Paralleling the burst of dramatic activity in England, it encompassed in purely Spanish terms the moral, intellectual and artistic atmosphere of the time--the conflicts between reality and appearance, love and honor, passion and folly--leading to an admixture of the comic and tragic and to the invention of such universal and enduring characters as Don Juan...