by Antonio Mira de Amescua · Ediciones Cátedra · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788437602271
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«El esclavo del demonio» is the play by Antonio Mira de Amescua, published by Ediciones Cátedra in paperback (186 pages, in Spanish).
The work is based on a Portuguese hagiographic legend: fray Gil, a religious man, sells his soul to the devil in exchange for learning the secrets of necromancy. The plot, religious and moral in tone, recalls the Faust myth and unfolds within the context of Spanish classical theater.
This 1984 edition belongs to the Letras Hispánicas collection (no. 113), edited by James Agustín Castañeda and includes a bibliography.
For readers interested in Spanish classical theater, Golden Age literature, and legends of pacts with the devil.
Antonio Mira de Amescua, Spanish dramatist, was born at Guadix (Granada) about 1578. He is said, but doubtfully, to have been the illegitimate son of one Juana Perez. He took orders, obtained a canonry at Guadix, and settled at Madrid early in the 17th century. He is mentioned as a prominent dramatist in Rojas Villandrandos Loa (1603), which was written several years before it was published. In 1610, being then arch-dean of Guadix, he accompanied the count de Lemos to Naples, and on his return to Spain was appointed (1619) chaplain to the Cardinale-Infante Ferdinand of Austria; he is referred to as still alive in Montalbán's Para todos (1632), and he collaborated with Montalbán and Calderón in Polifemo y Circe, printed in 1634. The date of his death is not known.
