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Lope de Vega Carpio: Peribáñez & the Comendador of Ocaña

Translated with an Introduction & Commentary by James Lloyd

Peribáñez is a poetic tragicomedy of masterly theatricality and profound human interest. Created from a few lines of folk song, it tells of the Comendador's adulterous passion for Peribáñez's wife, Casilda. The conflict between Peribáñez, the sturdily independent peasant farmer, and the romantic, self-doubting nobleman is brilliantly presented against a background of a whole society, from peasant to king, in harmonious coexistence. An underlying poetic structure of great richness and consistency adds depth to Lope's handling of the theme. 254p, 5 illus (Aris & Phillips 1990)

Table of contents

Preface
Introduction:
Lope's life
Lope and the theatre: i. The theatres of Madrid, ii. Lope and the comedia, iii. The are Nuevo
Peribanez- Date and source
Synopsis
Characters
Imagery and themes
Songs and ballads
Structure and place
Staging
Honour
Worlds in conflict
Sentencias, Aphorisms, proverbs, Conceptos and dramatic irony
Metre
The translation
Notes to the Introduction
Select Bibliography
Peribaoez
Commentary

Biographical note

James Lloyd came to Spanish drama via the Classical theatre of Greece and Rome. As a Lope enthusiast, his favourite birthday treat was to translate and perform a different play each year for his friends. His verse translations of the plays of Lope de Vega aimed to capture the drama and pace of the astonishingly versatile original language. James Lloyd will be remembered as a great polymath, polyglot, family man and teacher of many languages who died prematurely soon after this book was published.

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