A companion to early modern Hispanic theater / edited by Hilaire Kallendorf.


Leiden Boston : Brill, [2014]
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Part of the series The Renaissance Society of America texts and studies series, 2212-3091 volume 2;Renaissance Society of America texts and studies series v. 2.
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  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-369) and index.
  • Introduction — Origins. Celestina as closet drama / Enrique Fernandez Rivera — Courtly love and the Comedia / Robert Bayliss — The Comedia and the classics / Frederick A. de Armas — Spanish sacramental plays: a study of their evolution / J. Enrique Duarte — Themes. Honor/honra revisited / A. Robert Lauer — The wife-murder plays / Matthew D. Stroud — ‘Til play do us part: marriage, law, and the Comedia / Maria M. Carrion — Onstage/backstage: animals in the Golden Age Comedia / Adrienne L. Martin — Entremeses and other forms of Teatro Breve / Ted L.L. Bergman — PLACES. On speed and restlessness: Calderon’s Urban kaleidoscope / Enrique Garcia Santo-Tomas — The New World in Lope de Vega’s Columbus and St. Christopher: El nuevo mundo descubierto por Cristobal Colon / Maryrica Ortiz Lottman — The quest for spiritual transcendence in the theater of Gil Vicente / Manuel Delgado Morales — Lope de Vega and The martyrs of Japan / Christina H. Lee — INTERSECTIONS. Picaresque sensibility and the Comedia / Edward H. Friedman — Emblems at the Golden Age theater / Ignacio Arellano — Science, instrumentality, and chaotics in early modern Spanish drama / Cory A. Reed — Melancholy, the Comedia, and early modern psychology / Teresa Scott Soufas — Jacques Lacan and tragic drama in the Golden Age of Spain / Henry W. Sullivan.
  • A panoramic, state-of-the-art handbook destined to chart a course for future work in the field of early modern Hispanic theater studies. It begins in the closet with an essay on Celestina as closet drama and moves out into the court to explore intersections with courtly love. An essay on the comedia and the classics demonstrates this genre’s firm grounding in the classical tradition, despite Lope de Vega’s famous protestations to the contrary. Distinct but related genres such as the autos sacramentales and the entremeses also make an appearance. The traditional themes of honor and wife-murder share the stage with less familiar topics like the incorporation of animals into performance. This volume covers the urban space of the city in Spain and Portugal as well as uncharted territories in the New World and Japan. Essays on emblems and the picaresque round out this anthology, along with studies of theatrical representations of early modern innovations in science and technology. The book concludes with two different psychoanalytical approaches, focused on melancholy and Lacanian tragedy, respectively. This collection incorporates the work of younger scholars along with established names in the field to synthesize the most exciting recent work on the comedia and related forms of early modern Hispanic theatrical production. –Publisher’s description.

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