Proyecto Final: Transducción Entre Idiomas
authors like Thomas Dekker and Ben Jonson. The theme of revenge was very popular during the
Jacobean period, which was also characterized by dark moods, "questioning the stability of the
social order." It is appropriate that Mabbe decided to translate this work, as it is easily adaptable
to these themes. Pármeno and Sempronio kill Celestina in an act that could be named revenge,
for not being compensated. And Elicia and Areusa send Centurio to pay revenge to Calisto and
Melibea.
The second translation I read is by Peter Bush, with an introduction by Juan Goytisolo.
This translation was also written using the tragicomedia of 21 acts. Goytisolo, one of the most
famous writers of the 20th century, writes in his introduction that this translation of La
Tragicomedia "now gives readers in the English-speaking world access to an astonishingly
modern work..
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