Article: Prosper Merimee: Plays on Hispanic Themes.(Book Review)

Prosper Merimee: Plays on Hispanic Themes. Trans. and ed. by OSCAR MANDEL. New York: Peter Lang. 2003. viii+205 pp. $29.95. ISBN 0-8204-6308-6.

Thirteen works in dramatic form constitute a substantial part of Merimee's literary output, but, as Oscar Mandel observes in his comprehensive introductory essay 'Prosper Merimee Playwright', the range of those recently published is narrow and few are performed. Those translated here are the two Ines Mendo plays, Le Carrosse du Saint-Sacrement, and L'Occasion (from the The atre de Clara Gazul; he excludes three others as lightweight), together with La Famille de Carvajal. His essay makes two claims for Merimee's theatre. ...

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