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Title: Los Amantes de Teruel
Drama en cuatro actos en verso y prosa

Author: Hartzenbusch, Juan Eugenio

Release Date: February 2, 2004 [EBook #10909]

Language: Spanish

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LOS AMANTES DE TERUEL

POR

JUAN EUGENIO HARTZENBUSCH

_WITH INTRODUCTION, NOTES, AND VOCABULARY_

BY

G.W. UMPHREY, PH.D.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ROMANCE LANGUAGES
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

1920.

PREFACE

The importance of Hartzenbusch in the history of the Spanish drama and
the enduring popularity in Spain of _Los Amantes de Teruel_, his
masterpiece, have assured this play a definite place in the work of
advanced students of Spanish literature in our universities. For such
students the many editions published in Spain and elsewhere have been
perhaps sufficient, but for the much larger number who never reach the
advanced literary classes an annotated edition is needed. That this play
offers excellent material for the work of more elementary courses in the
schools and colleges has long been the opinion of the present editor;
and that it has not already found a place among the Spanish texts
published in this country is difficult to understand. The old legend of
Teruel, the embodiment of pure and constant love, is one that might well
be expected to make a strong appeal to the youth of any country; the
simple and direct presentation given to the legend by Hartzenbusch and
the comparative freedom from textual difficulties, as the result of the
careful revisions of the play by its scholarly author, bring it within
the range of the understanding and appreciation of students who have
studied Spanish one year in college or two years in high school, if it
is put before them in a properly prepared edition.

The editor has