El Castigo Sin Venganza by Lope de Vega: Hispanic Texts

Aimed principally at undergraduates who are new to Spanish Golden Age drama, this edition includes a substantial commentary on the text, explanatory footnotes and a selected vocabulary. The introduction sets the play in its contexts - historical and dramatic - and focuses too on elements of the genre with which new readers might be unfamiliar: performance norms, the poetry of the play and the linguistic differences in Golden Age Spanish. The text itself is accompanied by explanatory footnotes, an in-depth commentary and a glossary of less common words, each of which is informed by up-to-date scholarship on the play from both Spain and the Anglophone world.

While this edition of Lope's masterpiece will be of particular use to undergraduates coming to Golden Age drama for the first time, it will also appeal to students at higher levels, and admirers of Spanish Golden Age theatre.