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Three plays of the Argentine: Juan Moreira, Santos Vega, The witches' mountain

Three plays of the Argentine: Juan Moreira, Santos Vega, The witches' mountain

Editor Edward Hale Bierstadt, (Translat

Paperback

PlaysSouth American History

ISBN10: 9353606993
ISBN13: 9789353606992
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Mar 30 2019
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Gaucho blades, haunted songs, and frontier sorcery collide in this landmark argentine drama anthology. Three legends on the pampas. Juan Moreira, Santos Vega, and The Witches' Mountain gather on one stage to chart life on the pampas in all its beauty and brutality, from gaucho folk hero legends and argentine outlaw folk tales to the shadowed edges of belief. Rooted in 19th century Argentina fiction and oral tradition, these classic Latin American plays explore honour, exile, and pampas frontier justice, capturing a society torn between law and loyalty, modernity and the open range. Together they form a vivid gaucho theater collection that speaks as powerfully to contemporary readers as it did to its first audiences. In Edward Hale Bierstadt's pioneering English edition, with Jacob S. Fassett's translation, Argentine voices long confined to local stages entered the global conversation of Latin American classic literature, standing beside the world evoked by Jose Hernandez for their intense portrait of the gaucho and the land that shaped him. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure. For world literature students, for classic drama readers, and for fans of Jose Hernandez seeking new pathways into the culture of the South American plains, this volume offers a resonant, enduring window onto a vanished world.

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