As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)

Comedias de Don Leandro Fernandez de Moratin, con el prologo y las noticias de la Real Academia de la historia (Spanish Edition)

History

Moratín, Leandro Fernández de

Europe

BiblioLife

La Escuela de los Maridos (Spanish Edition)

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

"The New Play" and "A Girl's Yes" by Leandro Fernández de Moratín two works translated by Robert M. Fedorchek, introduction by Sally-Ann Kitts *** Madrid-born Leandro Fernández de Moratín (1760-1828) wrote five plays: The Old Man and the Girl [El viejo y la niña], The Baron [El barón], The New Play [La comedia nueva], The Female Hypocrite [La mojigata], and A Girl's Yes [El sí de las niñas]. Two of them would change the theater in Spain. At the close of the eighteenth century, in 1792, Moratín upended the status quo of melodrama with The New Play, a satire that takes aim at hacks cranking out works bereft of literary merit. Using as his vehicle a play within a play, he zeroes in on a pompous pedant, decries the rowdiness of the theater-going public, and ridicules a one-time lottery clerk and page who believes it's possible to write plays with neither preparation nor learning of any sort. And at the outset of the nineteenth century, in 1806, he censures the abuses of parental authority and absolute control over girls who are subject to a neglectful education and have no say whatsoever in the lives they lead. A Girl's Yes--plotted superbly, written impeccably, and standing as a showcase of the neoclassical unities of time, action, and place--soon became a stellar example of the very best of the classics that constitute Spain's rich theatrical repertoire. Even the Romantic successes of the Duke of Rivas's Don Álvaro, or the Force of Fate (1835), Antonio García Gutiérrez's The Troubadour (1836), and José Zorrilla's Don Juan Tenorio (1844) would not eclipse the splendor of A Girl's Yes in the nineteenth century.

The New Play and A Girl's Yes (11)

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Juan de la Cuesta-Hispanic Monographs

This is the text of Moratin's "El Si de las Ninas", in Spanish with an English introduction and notes.

Moratin: El Si De Las Ninas (Spanish Texts)

de Moratin, Leandro

History & Criticism

Bristol Classical Pr

La Comedia Nueva: El Si De Las Ninas

Fernandez De Maratin, Leandia

Literary

Espasa-Calpe

LA Comedia Nueva: El Si De Las Ninas

Classics

Planeta Pub Corp

Una comedia comprometida con los problemas sociales y la de la realización mas felíz en cuanto al tratamiento del mismo en el plano literario y teatral.

El sí de las niñas

Fernández, Leandro

De Moratin, L. Fdez.

World Literature

MESTAS Ediciones, S.L.

El Si de las Ninas / La Escuela de Maridos (Spanish Edition)

Parenting & Relationships

Parenting

Grupo Editorial Tomo

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