Crónicas hispanas del Siglo XIII.

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...

Libro informativo sobre el agua: el ciclo del agua, los ríos, los mares y océanos, la energía del agua...

Virgilio Piñera, author of a large collection of poems, short stories, novels, plays, and essays, is one of Cuba's most important writers. Poètica de la Frialdad offers a new reading of Piñera's narrative. During the 1940's, when Caribbean writers such as Alejo Carpentier and Josè Lezama Lima were elaborating the aesthetics of magic realism, the neo-baroque and negritude, Piòera's tendency was opposite. Some of his books have titles such as Cuentes frìos (Cold Stories), Aire frìos (Cold Air) and Helada zona (Frozen Zone). For Piñera, coldness is a poetic principle that governs not...

En el Siglo de Oro, una época marcada por la omnipresencia de la locura (de los reyes locos a sus bufones, de los internos de manicomios a los locos de la baraja del tarot), Belén Atienza ha descubierto que el fascinante y complejísimo debate en torno a la enfermedad mental estaba íntimamente ligado a cuestiones políticas y teológicas. Este ensayo, radicalmente innovador, es el primero dedicado a la locura y la melancolía en el teatro de Lope de Vega. Conocedor de la medicina de su tiempo, los manicomios y las “locuras” de reyes y validos, Lope dramatiza la tragedia de los enfermos ...