by Fernando de Rojas · Espasa Calpe · tapa dura · ISBN 9788470399022
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«La Celestina» is the tragicomedy by Fernando de Rojas published in hardback in 2002 (632 pages, in Spanish).
Calisto, a young nobleman, falls hopelessly in love with Melibea and, to win her love, turns to the old Celestina, a go-between and sorceress. The tragicomedy contrasts the courtly love of the gentry with the marginal world of the servants; desire drags the characters toward a tragic outcome, reflecting a society in crisis between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
The work is also known as Tragicomedy of Calisto and Melibea; the edition includes an introduction and notes by Peter E. Russell.
A work commonly read in the teaching of Spanish literature and an essential classic of Renaissance theatre.
Fernando de Rojas was a Spanish author and dramatist, known for his only surviving work, La Celestina, first published in 1499. It is variously considered "the last work of the Spanish Middle Ages or the first work of the Spanish Renaissance".
