The title character of this work says that the lamb goes to the slaughter as soon as the sheep to convince another character that youth is no better than old age. That title character conspires to get the protagonists to meet each other by pretending that one of them has a toothache and wants the other to recite a prayer to cure it. The prostitute Areusa says of another woman that even though she's a virgin, she has the breasts of a woman who has
The title character of this work says that the lamb goes to the slaughter as soon as the sheep to convince another character that youth is no better than old age. That title character conspires to get the protagonists to meet each other by pretending that one of them has a toothache and wants the other to recite a prayer to cure it. The prostitute Areusa says of another woman that even though she's a virgin, she has the breasts of a woman who has had three children. Other characters in this work include Tristram and Sosia, servants of one of the protagonists, and Lucrecia, the other protagonist's maid. Things quickly unravel in the last few acts of this work, as PÃ¡rmeno and Sempronio are beheaded for murdering the title procuress, and this work ends with a long speech by Pleberio mourning the death of his daughter Melibea, who kills herself after her lover Calisto dies by falling off a ladder. For 10 points, name this Medieval Spanish work by Fernando de Rojas.
The title character of this work says that the lamb goes to the slaughter as soon as the sheep to convince another character that youth is no better than old age.
La Celestina [or Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea or Tragicomedy of Calisto and Melibea]