Juan Mayorga - Six Plays

Juan Mayorga: Six Plays is the first collection of Spanish dramatist Juan Mayorga's plays in English, offering a compelling insight into the extraordinary range and quality of one of the Spanish-speaking world's most distinctive voices.

List of contents

1. Action, Emotion, Poetry, and Thought: Introduction to Juan Mayorga and His Work
Jerelyn Johnson
2. Theater, Translation, and Philosophy
David Johnston
3. Way to Heaven (Himmelweg)
2. 4. The Boy at the Back
3. 5. Perpetual Peace
4. 6. The Mapmaker
5. 7. Reykjavik
6. 8. The Collection

About the author

Jerelyn Johnson is Professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA.
David Johnston is an award-winning translator and scholar, who is currently Professor of Translation and Interpreting at Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Juan Mayorga is Spain's most renowned living dramatist, best known in English-speaking countries for his 2004 play Way to Heaven (Himmelweg).

Summary

Juan Mayorga: Six Plays is the first collection of Spanish dramatist Juan Mayorga’s plays in English, offering a compelling insight into the extraordinary range and quality of one of the Spanish-speaking world’s most distinctive voices.

Product details

• Authors: Jerelyn Johnston Johnson
• Assisted by: Jerelyn Johnson (Editor), David Johnston (Editor), Johnston David (Editor), Jerelyn Johnson (Translation), David Johnston (Translation), Johnston David (Translation)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.04.2024
• EAN: 9781032132457
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3213245-7
• No. of pages: 250
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; DRAMA / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese, Spanish, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Modern and contemporary plays (c 1900 onwards), Plays, Playscripts, Literary studies: plays and playwrights