Rebeldes y aventureros

Incluye estudios de especialistas y escritores de España y América Latina que abordan las formas contemporáneas del cruce de lo realista y lo fantástico, en un sentido lato, en la actual narrativa latinoamericana.

In 1981, on the basis of documentary evidence, the authors identified the site of the first public theatre in Alcala de Henares, dating from the time of Cervantes. The building, which had been most recently in use as a cinema, showed evidence of four periods of dramatic activity: the original corral de comedias, an 18th century horse-shoe amphitheatre, an elliptical amphitheatre of Roman period, and the cinema. Research in archives provided a wealth of documentation up to the 19th century, covering all aspects of theatrical life, from the original contract for the construction of the corral...

Fray Luis de Len (1527-91) is known chiefly as the author of some of the finest poetry of the Spanish Golden Age, but he also wrote important prose works in both Latin and Spanish, and produced eloquent translations into Spanish of biblical and classical texts. He spent five years imprisoned in solitary confinement by the Spanish Inquisition, fighting to clear himself of a series of accusations against his views on the Bible. Acquitted on all counts, he returned to teach at the University of Salamanca. This book examines the controversies in which Fray Luis was caught up, and investigates the ...

La antigua costumbre universitaria de solemnizar la apertura del curso escolar con un discurso conmemorativo produjo un abundante cuerpo de piezas oratorias en latín que solo el Renacimiento comenzó a valorar en su justa medida. Es por ello que, en su gran mayoría, los sermones o arengas de esta clase se han perdido para el periodo medieval. En este volumen se rescata uno de estos discursos, que tanto por sus fechas como por sus características puede considerarse el más importante de cuantos hoy se conocen para la península ibérica en la Edad Media. Pronunciado en la universidad de...