La Celestina

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La Celestina is a seminal late 15th-century Spanish tragicomedy, often considered a precursor to the modern novel and a cornerstone of Spanish Renaissance literature.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Renaissance literature
Spanish tragicomedy
literary work
adaptedAs film
opera
theatre plays
alternativeTitle La Celestina
surface form: Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea
author Fernando de Rojas
centralFigure La Celestina self-linksurface differs
surface form: a procuress named Celestina
character Areúsa
Elicia
Pleberio
Pármeno
Sempronio
countryOfOrigin Spain
firstEditionLanguage Early Modern Spanish
firstEditionPlace Burgos
firstPublicationDate 1499
form dialogue
genre drama
tragicomedy
influenceOn European Renaissance drama
Spanish Golden Age
surface form: Spanish Golden Age literature
language Spanish
literaryForm prose drama
literaryMovement Spanish Renaissance
literarySignificance cornerstone of Spanish Renaissance literature
precursor to the modern novel
mainCharacter Calisto
La Celestina self-linksurface differs
surface form: Celestina

Melibea
narrativeMode dialogic
numberOfActs 21
originalMedium print
originalTitle La Celestina self-linksurface differs
surface form: Comedia de Calisto y Melibea
period late 15th century
settingLocation an unnamed Spanish city
structure acts
subjectMatter go-betweens and procuresses
illicit love
theme class conflict
corruption
death
greed
honor
love
lust
social hypocrisy
timePeriodDepicted late medieval Spain

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Spanish Renaissance notableWork La Celestina
Blue Period hasNotableWork La Celestina
Picasso's Blue Period notableWork La Celestina
La Celestina alternativeTitle La Celestina
this entity surface form: Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea
La Celestina originalTitle La Celestina self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Comedia de Calisto y Melibea
La Celestina mainCharacter La Celestina self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Celestina
La Celestina centralFigure La Celestina self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: a procuress named Celestina
Fernando de Rojas notableWork La Celestina
Fernando de Rojas work La Celestina
Rojas notableWork La Celestina
subject surface form: Fernando de Rojas
Célestine hasRelatedName La Celestina
this entity surface form: Celestina
Jordi Mollà notableWork La Celestina
Early Modern Spanish notableWorkIn La Celestina