From: Sonia Morcillo [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 9:37 AM
Subject: Rare Spanish plays on display
A new exhibition at Cambridge University Library features items from a recently purchased collection of 1,850 comedias sueltas ("loose plays") published in Spain between the mid-eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries. The display, curated by the Library's Hispanic Specialist, Sonia Morcillo, runs until Saturday 16th November and can be viewed during Library opening hours (9am-6pm Monday to Friday, 9am-4.30pm Saturday).
This new collection of sueltas contains works by major playwrights of the eighteenth century, re-workings of Golden Age classics, plays by authors of the canon, some translations and adaptations of European plays, and a number of plays by minor dramatists, whose works are very rare. Most of the sueltas are in Spanish, the majority belonging to the nineteenth century.
For more information on the collection, please visit the Special Collection's blog at https://specialcollections.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=5943#more-5943 or contact Sonia at [log in to unmask] <https://specialcollections.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=5943#more-5943>
Best wishes,
Sonia Morcillo
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Sonia Morcillo-García
Hispanic Specialist
Cambridge University Library
West Road
Cambridge, CB3 9DR
United Kingdom
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Tel.: +44 (0)1223 333092
Fax: +44 (0)1223 333160
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