Religious and Secular Theater in Golden Age Spain

Table Of Contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• About the editors
• About the book
• This eBook can be cited
• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• I. An Appreciation of Donald T. Dietz
• Donald T. Dietz and the Transformation of Comedia Studies (Matthew D. Stroud)
• II. Auto Sacramental
• Iluminación divina y luz natural de la razón en el auto y comedia de La vida es sueño (Manuel Delgado Morales)
• Manuscript Echoes (Margaret R. Greer)
• El uso de la silva en el auto sacramental de Calderón: El tesoro escondido (A. Robert Lauer)
• III. Aspects of Religion and Their Staging in Comedias
• Allegories of Faith: Lope de Vega’s Two Extant Plays on Teresa de Ávila (Barbara Mujica)
• Metatheatricality and Conversion in Lope’s Lo fingido verdadero (Dakin Matthews)
• Staging Mysticism: Cañizares’s La más amada de Cristo, Santa Gertrudis la Magna (Susan Paun de García)
• Teoría y práctica sobre la construcción del héroe trágico en una comedia de asunto bíblico: Los cabellos de Absalón de Calderón (Isaac Benabu)
• Dissimilar Signs of Faith in Calderón’s Theater of Intrigue (David J. Hildner)
• Staging Allegory: The Four Virtues in María de San Alberto and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Sharon D. Voros)
• IV. Other Aspects of Staging
• The Dramatic Stagecraft of Calderón: Stage Movement and Proxemic Relations in El alcalde de Zalamea (Robert M. Johnston)
• Looking Back: Lope’s El marido más firme (William R. Blue)
• Staging the Pavane: Dance as Metaphor in El desdén, con el desdén (Donald R. Larson)
• V. Pedagogical Implications and Applications of Staging
• Mentoring Spanish Theater Performance and Service Learning: The BYU Spanish Golden Age Theater Project’s Production of Guillén de Castro’s El Narciso en su opinión (Valerie Hegstrom / Dale J. Pratt)
• Performance as Discovery: Questioning Quevedo’s Entremeses and Zayas’s La traición en la amistad (Amy R. Williamsen)
• VI. Re-Reading, Re-Viewing, Re-Creating, Re-Writing
• Redefining “Boundary Conditions” of Comedia Studies—If Not Now, When?: (Re)emergence of Close Reading and Digital Humanities (Susan L. Fischer)
• Calderón’s La aurora en Copacabana, a Scandalous Reading (Bradley J. Nelson)
• Translating Hispanic Women Dramatists in the Twenty-First Century: Are We There Yet? (Catherine Larson)
• Dogville, Jazz Club Polonia, and the Ethics of Adaptation (Bruce R. Burningham)
• Abjection and Resistance in El retablo de las maravillas, Visiones de la muerte, and Las cortes de la muerte: Andrés Zambrano’s Tres obras cortas del Siglo de Oro (2011) (Christopher D. Gascón)
• Calderón on the BBC: Radio Translation, Adaptation, and Performance (Christopher B. Weimer)
• Changing for the Better, or Worse: Adapting Juan Ruiz de Alarcón (Edward H. Friedman)
• Contributors
• Tabula Gratulatoria
• Index
• Series index