Eight Dramas of Calderon
Author | : Pedro Calderón de la Barca |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 740 |
Release | : 1906 |
ISBN-10 | : HARVARD:32044004440400 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Choosing such less famous plays as still seemed to me suited to English taste, and to that form of verse in which our dramatic passion prefers to run, I have, while faithfully trying to retain what was fine and efficient, sunk, reduced, altered, and replaced, much that seemed not; simplified some perplexities; and curtailed or omitted scenes that seemed to mar the breadth of general effect, supplying such omissions by some lines of after-narrative; and in some measure have tried to compensate for the fulness of sonorous Spanish, which Saxon English at least must forgo, by a compression which has its own charm to Saxon ears. - Advertisement.