La presente versión teatral de La Celestina ha sido estimada como la primera versión dramática castellana que mantiene el sentido y estilo del antiguo teatro clásico, tanto en los caracteres como en el lenguaje. En muchos países de América la crítica, así como el público, apreció la medida en que la palabra y los personajes se corresponden cabalmente, como debe suceder en esta extraordinaria obra. La vitalidad del personaje central –la...

"The writings of the Greeks and Romans form the bedrock of Western culture. Inventing the molds for histories, tragedies, and philosophies, while pioneering radical new forms of epic and poetry, the Greeks and Romans created the literary world we still inhabit today. Writing with verve and insight, distinguished classicist Richard Jenkyns explores a thousand years of classical civilization, carrying readers from the depths of the Greek dark ages through...

Ben Jonson famously accused Shakespeare of having "small Latin and less Greek." But he was exaggerating. Shakespeare was steeped in the classics. Shaped by his grammar school education in Roman literature, history, and rhetoric, he moved to London, a city that modeled itself on ancient Rome. He worked in a theatrical profession that had inherited the conventions and forms of classical drama, and he read deeply in Ovid, Virgil, and Seneca. In a book...

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More than 300 pieces of classical literature, primarily Greek but also some Roman.