Actors, or Playing for Real (1983)  Radio  Carinus

Adaptation by Peter Barnes of Lo Fingido Verdadero, written by Lope de Vega c1607-08.
Has also translated as Acting is Believing or The Great Pretenders.  Broadcast on April 3, 1983 on BBC 3.

An especially fine edition of this play:

Acting is Believing—A Tragicomedy in Three Acts, translated by Michael D.   McGaha:  Trinity University Press, 1986.
This edition contains an excellent essay on Lope de Vega as an introduction.
1.  Other Plays by Lope de Vega.

2.  Biography of Lope de Vega:

The Life of Lope de Vega by Hugo Albert Rennert:  G.E. Stechert & Co., 1937.  Reprinted by B. Blom, 1968.
3.  Criticism/Interpretation of Lope de Vega.

4.  Books about Diocletian.

5.  Novel about St. Genesius of Arles:

The Final Bow by Alan David Justice:  T. Nelson Publishers, c1993.
6.  Books about ancient Roman theater.

7.  For more information about Peter Barnes, see the entry Revolutionary Witness:  The Preacher in the Films/TV section.


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