At 06:06 AM 10/4/2007, you wrote:
Dear Mr A.Robert Lauer,
 
We are studing La Celestina and we need some information.
 
Do you know when was the first théatral representation fo the text?
 
Best regards,
 
Anna
 

Dear Anna,

This is not an easy question, especially since there are many renditions of this work, dramatic and otherwise.  Two early verse renditions were made by Pedro Manuel de Urrea (Égloga de la Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea ) and Juan Sedeño (Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea: nuevamente trobada y sacada de prosa en metro castellano).  In 1903, Felipe Pedrell wrote La Celestina as opera.  Nowadays, of course, there are musicals (Enrique Llovet, La inmortal Celestina [1974]) and several movie versions, one of them, now available in DVD, with Penélope Cruz (Gerardo Vera's La Celestina [1996]).


Might I direct you to the Fernando de Rojas section of Mary Parker's book,

Spanish Dramatists of the Golden Age: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook (

Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998

),

ISBN: 0313288933 ?  Please invoke the enclosed link for some information with respect to this:

< http://books.google.com/books?id=pF6LTaiaFloC&pg=PA155&lpg=PA155&dq=celestina+drama&source=web&ots=DGByBSKRvA&sig=zwTiquXdpZ32wRbdrYmMmURh4qk#PPA155,M1 >

Also, Prof. Enrique Fernández < Enrique_Fernandez@umanitoba.ca>, U of Manitoba, Canada, and the members of his Celestina listserv < mailto:la-celestina@lists.umanitoba.ca> would be the ideal persons to contact about this.  In fact, I am copying him (them) herewith, out of courtesy.

Thank you for your question.

With best wishes,

A. Robert Lauer

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