Four Stage Adaptations of La Celestina

and Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea were written be read, either silently or, as Alonso de Proaza recommended, llorando y riyendo en tiempo y saz6n.' Neither Fernando de Rojas nor Proaza nor anyone else who possibly had a hand in the Celestina's composition is known to have suggested that it be performed as a play. The idea would have seemed as preposterous in 1500 as in modem times. It was then inconceivable-as it is to

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