El Muerto Disimulado / Presumed Dead - Angela De Azevedo

El muerto disimulado / Presumed Dead is a comedy by Ângela de Azevedo, a seventeenth-century Portuguese playwright who wrote in Spanish. The annotated text consists of an introduction, Spanish edition, and English prose translation. This female-authored play should appeal to a broad audience of readers and theatre practitioners, specialists and non-specialists.

About the author

à ngela de Azevedo was a Portuguese playwright. De Azevedo was born in Lisbon, likely in the early 17th century, to nobleman João de Azevedo Pereira of Casa Real and his wife Izabel de Oliveira. She spent time in the court of Philip IV of Spain in Madrid as a handmaiden to the king's wife Elisabeth of Bourbon.

Valerie Hegstrom is Associate Professor in Spanish & Comparative Literature and Coordinator of Women's Studies at Brigham Young University, U.S.

Catherine Larson is Professor Emerita in Spanish at Indiana University, U.S.

Summary

El muerto disimulado / Presumed Dead is a comedy by Angela de Azevedo, a seventeenth-century Portuguese playwright who wrote in Spanish. The annotated text consists of an introduction, Spanish edition, and English prose translation. This female-authored play should appeal to a broad audience of readers and theatre practitioners, specialists and non-specialists.

Product details

• Authors: Angela de Azevedo, Angela De Hegstrom Azevedo, Angela de Azevedo, Ângela de Azevedo, Valerie Hegstrom, Catherine Larson
• Assisted by: Valerie Hegstrom (Editor), Catherine Larson (Translation)
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2018
• EAN: 9781786940711
• ISBN: 978-1-78694-071-1
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics; Aris and Phillips Hispanic Cla; Aris and Phillips Hispanic Cla
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies