Publisher Description
En el Madrid de 1615, Miguel de Cervantes publica sus Entremeses, siguiendo el estilo de Lope de Rueda quien los llamaba Pasos. El fin del dichos Entremeses es llenar los huecos en las representaciones del teatro "serio", como la duracion de las obras eran muy larga, los Entremeses aligeraban la estancia del publico en los teatros, poco a poco dicho genero encontro gran aceptacion por el publico asistente. Los Entremeses reflejan situaciones de la vida cotidiana, basandose en el doble juego de fantasia y realidad; manejados en comedia y hechos para hacer reir, refuerza la aceptacion del publico. Los Entremeses representan una lectura obligada para los jovenes de esta epoca, por su importancia literaria, asi como por lo imaginativo de las situaciones y por que no ha dejado de estar vigente. A sus 400 anos de su publicacion la sociedad contemporanea se refleja en los Entremeses llegando a la conclusion de que el ser humano sigue siendo el mismo.
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About Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547–1616), novelist, playwright, and poet, was born in Spain of an ancient but impoverished family. After studying in Madrid, he became a soldier and was wounded in battle. He was taken by pirates in 1575, put in prison at Algiers, and was ransomed five years later. He spent the remainder of his life struggling to earn a livelihood from literature and humble government employment. His first attempt at fiction was a pastoral novel, La Galatea (1585), which was followed by his masterpiece, The Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605).
About the Narrators
Adriana Sananes is an award-winning actress and an Earphones Award–winning audiobook narrator. She narrated the documentary Children of Fate, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and nominated for an Academy Award, and has recorded over eighty bestsellers including Loving Che, The Dark Bride, My Sister Frida, The Dirty Girls Social Club, the Grammy-nominated Brown Bear Series by Eric Carle, and the Audie-nominated How the García Girls Lost Their Accent by Julia Álvarez.
Francisco Rivela is an actor, director, and announcer. His stage credits include many productions at the Spanish Repertory Theatre and other Hispanic theatres. Television appearances include The Cosby Show and several daytime dramas. Mr. Rivela presents his own dramatic projects in SOHO, and he has recorded many books for the American Foundation for the Blind and Recorded Books.
Francisco Rivela es actor, director y locutor. Sus créditos teatrales incluyen muchas producciones en el Repertorio Español y otros teatros hispanos. Apariciones en televisión incluyen The Cosby Show y varios dramas diurnos. Sr. Rivela presenta sus propios proyectos dramáticos en SOHO, y ha grabado muchos libros para la American Foundation for the Blind y Recorded Books.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547–1616), novelist, playwright, and poet, was born in Spain of an ancient but impoverished family. After studying in Madrid, he became a soldier and was wounded in battle. He was taken by pirates in 1575, put in prison at Algiers, and was ransomed five years later. He spent the remainder of his life struggling to earn a livelihood from literature and humble government employment. His first attempt at fiction was a pastoral novel, La Galatea (1585), which was followed by his masterpiece, The Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605).