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Read Tirso de Molina’s verse play Damned for Despair in Spanish. Level B2: a drama of faith and damnation in three jornadas, with instant word translation.
Verse dialogue, 17th-century Spanish forms (aqueste, aquesto, agora), vocabulary of faith, sin and judgment, the theme of salvation and despair
This article contains the full text of Damned for Despair (El condenado por desconfiado), the verse play traditionally attributed to Tirso de Molina and printed in 1635, in which a hermit who fears damnation is told that his end will be that of a bandit in Naples. Level B2 suits readers who can handle verse and the Spanish of the 17th century. You will learn the vocabulary of faith, sin and judgment, and how to read dialogue in verse.