by Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, José Montero Reguera · Castalia Ediciones · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788470398513
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«La verdad sospechosa» is the Golden Age comedy by Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, edited by José Montero Reguera, in paperback (254 pages).
Comedy of intrigue set in seventeenth-century Madrid. Don García, a young man accustomed to lying, sows confusion with his falsehoods and ends up caught in a labyrinth of amorous and social misunderstandings. Ruiz de Alarcón uses the plot to mock the vices of the court, such as marriages of convenience and the craving for social advancement, in one of the most celebrated works of Spanish theatre.
Volume 250 of the Clásicos Castalia collection. Includes a biographical and critical introduction, selected bibliography, notes and an appendix with variants from the 1630 edition.
For students of Spanish literature and readers interested in classical Golden Age theatre.
Juan Ruiz de Alarcón was a New Spanish writer of the Golden Age who cultivated different variants of dramaturgy. His works include the comedy La verdad sospechosa, which is considered a masterpiece of Latin American Baroque theater.
