El Conde don Pero Velez y don Sancho el Deseado / Count Don Pedro Velez and D...

by Richard Olmsted

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El Conde don Pero Velez y don Sancho el Deseado / Count Don Pedro Velez and Don Sancho el Deseado : Comedia En Tres Actos, Paperback by Olmsted, Richard (EDT), ISBN 0816671826, ISBN-13 9780816671823, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US El Conde don Pero Vélez y don Sancho el Deseado translated by Richard Hubbell Olmsted was first published in 1944. Minnesota Archive Editions uses technology to make long-unavailabls once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press scholarly and critical edition of Vélez de Guevara’s comedy was first scheduled for publication as volume ten of the famous Spanish series of plays called “Teatro Antiguo,” edited by the Spanish scholar, Ramón Menédez Pidal. But during the Spanish Civil War the plates disappeared from the publishing house in Madrid. However, part of a set of page proofs had been forwarded to Dr. Olmsted for checking and it is from these page proofs, in part, that the type for this volume has been set. The remainder of the text has been taken from a careful transcription which Dr. Olmsted had made from the original manuscript in Vélez de Guevara, who died in 1644, was one of the most prolific authors of the Golden Age of Spanish drama, and El Conde don Pero Vélez y don Sancho el Deseado has most of the characteristics typical of its period – it shows the customs and standards of the time, abounds in puns and humor, and unfolds a central love plot. The play is centered around the fam

• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Year: 1944
• ISBN: 9780816671823
• Condition: Fine

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