A New Anthology Of Early Modern Spanish Theater

Author : Bárbara Mujica
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780300163223

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A New Anthology of Early Modern Spanish Theater by Bárbara Mujica Pdf

This anthology of plays from the Spanish Golden Age brings together the work of canonical writers, female writers who are rapidly achieving canonical status, and lesser-known writers who have recently gained critical attention. It contains the full text of fifteen plays; an introduction to each play with information about the author, the work, performance issues, and current criticism; and glosses with definitions of difficult words and concepts. The extensive bibliography provides opportunities for further research.

Author : Bárbara Mujica
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781648894350

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Staging and Stage Décor: Early Modern Spanish Theater by Bárbara Mujica Pdf

This is the first book on staging and stage décor to focus specifically on early modern Spanish theater, from the 16th to the early 20th centuries. The introduction provides an overview of Spanish theater design from the 16th century, with particular attention to the corral theater and Lope de Vega. The scope of the book is vast. Some of the articles deal with early modern stagings, while others deal with contemporary productions. The collection contains articles by an international array of specialists on topics such as scenography and costuming, lighting, and performance space. It also broaches little-studied areas such as the use of alternative performance spaces, most notably prisons. The book provides in-depth analyses of particular archetypes - the melancholiac, the queen, the astrologer - and how they were, and are, staged. The focus on performance and performance space, costuming, set design, lighting, and audience seating make this a truly unique volume. This book is designed for students of Spanish literature and theater, researchers interested in theater history and early modern Spain, as well as theater professionals.

Author : Bárbara Mujica
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1648894925

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Staging and Stage Décor: Early Modern Spanish Theater by Bárbara Mujica Pdf

This is the first book on staging and stage décor to focus specifically on early modern Spanish theater, from the 16th to the early 20th centuries. The introduction provides an overview of Spanish theater design from the 16th century, with particular attention to the corral theater and Lope de Vega. The scope of the book is vast. Some of the articles deal with early modern stagings, while others deal with contemporary productions. The collection contains articles by an international array of specialists on topics such as scenography and costuming, lighting, and performance space. It also broaches little-studied areas such as the use of alternative performance spaces, most notably prisons. The book provides in-depth analyses of particular archetypes - the melancholiac, the queen, the astrologer - and how they were, and are, staged. The focus on performance and performance space, costuming, set design, lighting, and audience seating make this a truly unique volume. This book is designed for students of Spanish literature and theater, researchers interested in theater history and early modern Spain, as well as theater professionals.

Author : Susan L. Fischer,Frederick A. de Armas
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781644530177

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Women Warriors in Early Modern Spain by Susan L. Fischer,Frederick A. de Armas Pdf

Although scholars often depict early modern Spanish women as victims, history and fiction of the period are filled with examples of women who defended their God-given right to make their own decisions and to define their own identities. The essays in Women Warriors in Early Modern Spain examine many such examples, demonstrating how women battled the status quo, defended certain causes, challenged authority, and broke barriers. Such women did not necessarily engage in masculine pursuits, but often used cultural production and engaged in social subversion to exercise resistance in the home, in the convent, on stage, or at their writing desks. Distributed for the University of Delaware Press

Author : Matthew D. Stroud
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838756697

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Plot Twists and Critical Turns by Matthew D. Stroud Pdf

Plot Twists and Critical Turns: Queer Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Theater offers readings of a variety of works of seventeenth-century Spanish theater from perspectives grounded in queer studies, and demonstrates that these plays, even given the limitations imposed by censorship, public taste, and their own conventional precepts, are shot through with gaps that allow one to perceive at least the outlines of an absent queer object if not overt examples of manifest challenges to gender conformity.

Author : Anne J. Cruz,Maria Cristina Quintero
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781315438795

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Beyond Spain's Borders by Anne J. Cruz,Maria Cristina Quintero Pdf

10 Isabel Farnese and the Sexual Politics of the Spanish Court Theater -- Index

Author : Bárbara Mujica
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781648896668

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Staging and Stage Décor: Perspectives on European Theater 1500-1950 by Bárbara Mujica Pdf

'Staging and Stage Décor: Perspectives on European Theater 1500-1950' is a compendium of essays by an international array of theater specialists. The Introduction provides an overview of theater décor and architecture from ancient Greece through the Renaissance and beyond, while the articles that follow explore a variety of topics such as the development of lighting techniques in early modern Italy, the staging of convent theater in Portugal, performance spaces at Versailles, the reconstruction of the Globe theater, and Shrovetide plays in Germany. This volume also offers insight into little-studied subjects such as the early productions of Brecht and the spread of Russian theater to Japan. The focus on performance and performance space across centuries and continents makes this a truly unique volume.

Author : Bárbara Mujica
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611485189

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Shakespeare and the Spanish Comedia by Bárbara Mujica Pdf

Shakespeare and the Spanish Comedia is a nearly unique transnational study of the theater / performance traditions of early modern Spain and England. Divided into three parts, the book focuses first on translating for the stage, examining diverse approaches to the topic. It asks, for example, whether plays should be translated to sound as if they were originally written in the target language or if their “foreignness” should be maintained and even highlighted. Section II deals with interpretation and considers such issues as uses of polyphony, the relationship between painting and theater, and representations of women. Section III highlights performance issues such as music in modern performances of classical theater and the construction of stage character. Written by a highly respected group of British and American scholars and theater practitioners, this book challenges the traditional divide between the academy and the stage and between one theatrical culture and another.

Author : Sarah E. Owens,Margaret E. Boyle
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487531713

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Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World by Sarah E. Owens,Margaret E. Boyle Pdf

Recognizing the variety of health experiences across geographical borders, Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World interrogates the concepts of "health" and "healing" between 1500 and 1800. Through an interdisciplinary approach to medical history, gender history, and the literature and culture of the early modern Atlantic World, this collection of essays points to the ways in which the practice of medicine, the delivery of healthcare, and the experiences of disease and health are gendered. The contributors explore how the medical profession sought to exert its power over patients, determining standards that impacted conceptions of self and body, and at the same time, how this influence was mediated. Using a range of sources, the essays reveal the multiple and sometimes contradictory ways that early modern health discourse intersected with gender and sexuality, as well as its ties to interconnected ethical, racial, and class-driven concerns. Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World breaks new ground through its systematic focus on gender and sexuality as they relate to the delivery of healthcare, the practice of medicine, and the experiences of health and healing across early modern Spain and colonial Latin America.

Author : Michael Benedikt
Publisher : New York : Dutton
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : English drama
ISBN : UCAL:B4365498

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Modern Spanish Theatre by Michael Benedikt Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Marie Cruz Petersen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134780808

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Women's Somatic Training in Early Modern Spanish Theater by Elizabeth Marie Cruz Petersen Pdf

Drawing from early modern plays and treatises on the precepts and practices of the acting process, this study shows how the early modern Spanish actress subscribed to various somatic practices in an effort to prepare for a role. It provides today's reader not only another perspective to the performance aspect of early modern plays, but also a better understanding of how the woman of the theater succeeded in a highly scrutinized profession. Elizabeth Marie Cruz Petersen examines examples of comedias from playwrights such as Lope de Vega, Luis Vélez de Guevara, Tirso de Molina, and Ana Caro, historical documents, and treatises to demonstrate that the women of the stage transformed their bodies and their social and cultural environment in order to succeed in early modern Spanish theater. Women's Somatic Training in Early Modern Spanish Theater is the first full-length, in-depth study of women actors in seventeenth-century Spain. Unique in the field of comedia studies, it approaches the topic from a performance perspective, using somaesthetics as a tool to explain how an artist's lived experiences and emotions unite in the interpretation of art, reconfiguring her "self" via the transformation of habit.

Author : Hilaire Kallendorf
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004263017

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A Companion to Early Modern Hispanic Theater by Hilaire Kallendorf Pdf

A panoramic, state-of-the-art handbook in English destined to chart a course for future work in the field of early modern Hispanic theater studies. Contains 18 crucial essays distributed among 4 wide-ranging sections on Origins, Themes, Places, and Intersections.

Author : Harley Erdman,Susan Paun De García
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781855662926

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Remaking the Comedia by Harley Erdman,Susan Paun De García Pdf

Leading Golden Age theatre experts examine the ways that comedias have been adapted and reinvented, offering a broad performance history of the genre for scholars and practicioners alike.

Author : Laura R. Bass,Margaret Rich Greer
Publisher : Modern Language Assn of Amer
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0873529952

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Approaches to Teaching Early Modern Spanish Drama by Laura R. Bass,Margaret Rich Greer Pdf

At the start of the twenty-first century, performances of early modern Spanish drama experienced resurgent popularity--not only in Spain but also on stages across Europe, Latin America, and the United States. In the academy the comedia, which includes comic, tragicomic, and tragic works, is widely taught in a range of contexts to a variety of students, in Spanish and in translation. Given the steady increase of Spanish as the language of choice in foreign language departments, these courses will continue to flourish. This volume offers guidance to teachers in helping students engage with and understand these late-sixteenth- and early-seventeenth-century works. Part 1, "Materials," evaluates editions and anthologies in English and Spanish; identifies important critical works and historical studies; and surveys illustrated books, films, and Internet resources. In part 2, "Approaches," experienced teachers discuss the way the plays challenged the interests of the monarchial state; examine the obsession with honor shared by Spanish men and women alike; explain the key role costume played in providing both pleasure and meaning; and explore how late-twentieth-century films reflect elements of these early Spanish plays. Other approaches center on five women playwrights; delve into the complex theological and philosophical underpinnings of the plays; pair the plays with Shakespearean drama; show how Spanish plays influenced French dramatists; and trace the appeal of the Don Juan figure.

Author : María Chouza-Calo,Esther Fernández,Jonathan Thacker
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781802076387

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Daring Adaptations, Creative Failures and Experimental Performances in Iberian Theatre by María Chouza-Calo,Esther Fernández,Jonathan Thacker Pdf

In this volume, we are particularly interested in approaching theatre and performance as a dynamic and evolving practice of continuous change, regeneration and cultural mobility. Neither the dramatic texts nor their stage versions should be viewed as finished products but as creative processes in the making. Their richness lies in their unfinished and never-ending potential energy and their openness to constant revision, rehearsal, revival, and collective enterprise. This edited collection aims to create a dialogue on the artistic processes implicated in the various ways of working with the play text, the staging practices, the way audiences and critical reception can impact a production, and the many lives of Iberian theatre beyond the page or the stage. That is, its cultural and social legacies.