Category: Historical Novels
The features of "Don Francisco de Quevedo" that led to its selection as a text for the use of students of the second or even first year are its historical background, its ease and purity of style, and the sustained interest of the plot. As regards the chief character, Quevedo,...
The features of "Don Francisco de Quevedo" that led to its selection as a text for the use of students of the second or even first year are its historical background, its ease and purity of style, and the sustained interest of the plot. As regards the chief character, Quevedo, he is in a large measure the embodiment of the whole literary spirit of the first half of the seventeenth century and at the same time the champion of political reform. The play is written in Castilian of such simplicity that it presents almost no syntactical difficulties, and at the same time embodies a useful vocabulary. The development of the plot, the struggle between Olivares and Quevedo, is thoroughly logical...
The culminating disasters began to arrive in 1640 with the rebellion of Catalonia. The determination of the Catalans in 1626 to grant Philip no more arbitrary taxes marks the be...
1. Part 1The features of "Don Francisco de Quevedo" that led to its selection as a text for the use of students of the second or even first year are its historical background, its ease a...
9. Part 9Conde-duque, sentáos y cubríos. (¿Me querrá ver el rey más humillada?) 2730 Gozáis de tan cumplida preeminencia desde que el rey os concedió esa gracia. Hoy al partir el rey a S...
10. Part 10=782.= =el príncipe heredero=: Don Balthasar Carlos received a separate establishment in 1643. A boy of rare promise, his early death in 1646 was a serious blow to the hopes of...
3. Part 3Further historical material for the play Sanz took from two arraignments of the administration of Olivares published by Valladares. The use of these sources by Sanz will be poin...
7. Part 7No me han visto. Es fuerte apuro que me hayan de perseguir 1780 necios siempre, y de seguro con este infame conjuro: «Quevedo, hacednos reír.» Y es, por Dios, contraste horrendo...
4. Part 4Ya comprendo. Cosa es clara: 415 si es que ha de ser bien vendida, cuanto más valga una vida debe venderse más cara.... Golpes das a mi tesoro que han de agotarle quizás; 420 pe...
6. Part 6(QUEVEDO se acerca a la luz al lado de OLIVARES; los demás permanecen a cierta distancia. QUEVEDO leerá con lentitud y voz sonora los ocho versos del conocido soneto _A Una Nari...
8. Part 8Este escrito 2260 prueba de un modo fatal que el rey perdió a Portugal por culpa del favorito; y aunque según las razones de éste España en aquel día 2265 por un cetro que perdí...
5. Part 5Ligero anduve en decir, y mi error he conocido. 890 Con lengua os habéis venido... (Con cólera) ¡Sin lengua os debierais ir! (OLIVARES se retira por el fondo con aire sombrío, s...
13. Part 13=paso= _m._ step, passage, way; =al ~= immediately; =a ~ largo= hurriedly, quickly; =abrir ~= make way for; =cerrar el ~= prevent, interfere; =dar un ~= take a step, move; =dar...
12. Part 12=fin= _m. and f._ end, conclusion; purpose; =al ~ y al cabo= after all is said and done, finally; =dar ~= finish; =en ~= finally, after all, in short; =a ~ de que= in order that...
11. Part 11=dar= _irreg._ give, cause; =~ con= find, come upon; =~ en= strike, touch, happen, come to; =~ fin= end, come to an end; =~ muerte= kill; =~ muestras= show signs; =~ un paso= ta...
14. Part 14=tener= _irreg._ have, hold, keep; =~ hambre= be hungry; =~ gracia= be funny, be witty; =~ razón= be right; =~ miedo= be afraid; =~ presente= bear in mind; =~ que= must; =~ de=...