Description

An edited and annotated edition of a delightfully ribald classic, this is the first since 1873 and the first modern fully annotated edition of La comedia llamada Serafina.

The prose of the first few decades of sixteenth-century Spain has long been overshadowed by that of its surrounding epochs. On the one side, stretching well into the seventeenth century, there is that most important body of litera­ture known as the Golden Age. On the other side, there is a flowering of im­portant fifteenth-century works, over which the Celestina reigns supreme. As a result, most humanistic comedy, ap­pearing as it does between these two great periods, has suffered ill-deserved neglect.

Dille’s purpose here is to make avail­able for the first time a careful edition of the Serafina based on the two known sixteenth-century printings, those of 1521and 1546. Although much could be said about this comedy, the intro­ductory comments are kept to a mini­mum while the text is annotated as completely as possible.

About the Author

Glen F. Dille is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Southern Illinois Univer­sity at Edwardsville. He received his Ph.D. degree from Tulane University.