Shakespeare In The Spanish Theatre

Author : Keith Gregor
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441129383

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Shakespeare in the Spanish Theatre by Keith Gregor Pdf

Shakespeare in the Spanish Theatre offers an account of Shakespeare's presence on the Spanish stage, from a production of the first Spanish rendering of Jean-François Ducis's Hamlet in 1772 to the creative and controversial work of directors like Calixto Bieito and Alex Rigola in the early 21st century. Despite a largely indirect entrance into the culture, Shakespeare has gone on to become the best and known and most widely performed of all foreign playwrights. What is more, by the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st century there have been more productions of Shakespeare than of all of Spain's major Golden Age dramatists put together. This book explores and explains this spectacular rise to prominence and offers a timely overview of Shakespeare's place in Spain's complex and vibrant culture.

Author : Susan L. Fischer
Publisher : Tamesis Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015080687893

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Reading Performance by Susan L. Fischer Pdf

Spanish Golden-Age plays take their place at the forefront of world theatre. Oscar Wilde once observed that `it is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors'. This thought is borne out in this volume, which brings together two different and often mutually exclusive constituencies: the academic critic and the theatre practitioner. In looking at the ways in which theatre is a barometer of society, the essays in this book form part of a larger theoretical inquiry into performance as interpretation, contingent upon the cultural context. Engaging with theoretical approaches to culture, and theoreticians from Elam to Brook, and from Derrida to Bakhtin, the author analyzes in detail productions of plays by Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, and Calderón dela Barca, as well as an adaptation of Rojas' Celestina, on the Spanish, or French, or Anglo-American stage. Two chapters deal with appropriations of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice in translation on the Spanish andFrench boards. As they read performance in [trans]national productions, these essays are not only at the cutting-edge of theatre studies on the `foreign' stage, but they also bring Spanish Golden-Age plays, long neglected byprofessional directors of the classics because of the lack of a continuous performance tradition, closer to assuming their rightful place amongst `the great theatre of the world'. SUSAN L. FISCHER is Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Bucknell University.

Author : Lope De Vega,Roja Zorrila,Gwynne Edwards
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408150429

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Three Spanish Golden Age Plays by Lope De Vega,Roja Zorrila,Gwynne Edwards Pdf

Three classic Spanish plays, made famous by Shakespeare and Webster Two of the most famous and successful playwrights of Spain's Golden Age of playwriting were Lope de Vega (1562-1635) and Rojas Zorrilla (1607-48). From their prodigious output, the three plays in this volume, based on similar sources to Shakespeare's and Webster's versions, provide a fascinating comparison with their Jacobean counterparts. Lope's The Duchess of Amalfi's Steward, in contrast to Webster's play, focuses on the nobility of love, with characters who are complex and appealing. His Romeo-and-Juliet story, The Capulets and Montagues, is a fast-moving mixture of serious and comic, with an ending that will surprise and entertain. Rojas' treatment of Cleopatra, with its rich imagery, emphasises the love theme, held within a knot of jealous relationships. A full introduction by Gwynne Edwards sets the plays in context and provides a thorough study of the individual works.

Author : Sir Henry Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Theater
ISBN : UCSC:32106001906137

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Shakespeare in Spain by Sir Henry Thomas Pdf

Author : Harley Erdman,Susan Paun De García
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 54,9 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 : Catherine Boyle,David Johnston
Publisher : Oberon Books
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1840028157

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The Spanish Golden Age in English by Catherine Boyle,David Johnston Pdf

In 2004 the Royal Shakespeare Company produced a ground-breaking season of Spanish Golden Age plays in English which pioneered a new approach to translating these works for the modern stage. As well as a director and translator, each play was assigned an academic advisor in the belief that the quality and success of the productions would rely in part on balancing the vitality of contemporary theatre practice with respect for the original plays. The eight essays and three interviews in this book, contributed by a mixture of leading academics and renowned practitioners, explore some of the many issues that emerged from this experience - unique in British theatre history. They provide a new perspective on what it means to perform Spanish Golden Age theatre on today's English-speaking stage.

Author : Lope de Vega
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101068591310

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Castelvines Y Monteses : by Lope de Vega Pdf

Author : David Johnston
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781783195350

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Translating the Theatre of the Spanish Golden Age by David Johnston Pdf

What this book most definitely is not is yet another academic discussion of Lope de Vega, Calderon and their contemporaries, divorced from any understanding of what makes these plays work so brilliantly on our stages. Instead it is a leading contemporary translator’s account of why these plays deserve to assume their rightful place in our performance repertoire, firmly set within the demands and opportunities of how our theatre works. In a way it is the story of a love affair between a translator and a dramatic tradition whose riches are only now becoming apparent to theatre audiences; but it is also an exploration of the ways in which translation itself takes plays that are distant from us in time and space and makes them real and visible in terms of our own experience and our contemporary sensibilities.

Author : Kathleen Jeffs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198819349

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Staging the Spanish Golden Age by Kathleen Jeffs Pdf

In this volume, Kathleen Jeffs draws on first-hand experience of the Royal Shakespeare Company's rehearsal room for the 2004-05 Spanish Golden Age season to put forth a collaborative model for translating, rehearsing, and performing Spanish Golden Age drama. Building on the RSC season, the volume offers methodologies for translation and communication that can feed the creative processes of actors and directors, while maintaining an ethos of fidelity with regards to the original texts. It argues that collaboration between academics and theatre practitioners was instrumental in the success of the season and that the work carried out has repercussions for critical debate of Comedia. The volume posits a model for future productions of the Comedia in English, one that recognizes the need for the languages of the scholar and the theatre artist to be made mutually intelligible by the use of collaborative strategies, mediated by a consultant or dramaturg proficient in both tongues. This model applies more generally to theatrical collaborations involving a translator, writer and director, and will be useful for translation and performance processes in any language.

Author : David J. Amelang
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000822823

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Playgrounds by David J. Amelang Pdf

This book compares the theatrical cultures of early modern England and Spain and explores the causes and consequences not just of the remarkable similarities but also of the visible differences between them. An exercise in multi-focal theatre history research, it deploys a wide range of perspectives and evidence with which to recreate the theatrical landscapes of these two countries and thus better understand how the specific conditions of performance actively contributed to the development of each country’s dramatic literature. This monograph develops an innovative comparative framework within which to explore the numerous similarities, as well as the notable differences, between early modern Europe’s two most prominent commercial theatre cultures. By highlighting the nuances and intricacies that make each theatrical culture unique while never losing sight of the fact that the two belong to the same broader cultural ecosystem, its dual focus should appeal to scholars and students of English and Spanish literature alike, as well as those interested in the broader history of European theatre. Learning from what one ‘playground’ – that is, the environment and circumstances out of which a dramatic tradition originates – reveals about the other will help solve not only the questions posed above but also others that still await examination. This investigation will be of great interest to students and scholars in theatre history, comparative drama, early modern drama, and performance culture.

Author : Lope de Vega
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0199540179

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Three Major Plays by Lope de Vega Pdf

Lope de Vega (1562-1635), the architect of the drama of the Spanish Golden Age, created plots and characters notable for their energy, inventiveness and dramatic power, and which, in contrast to French classical drama, combine the serious and the comic in their desire to imitate life. This unique edition combines Lope's best-known play Fuente Ovejuna, The Knight from Olmedo and Punishment without Revenge. These three plays, grouped here in translations which are faithful to the original Spanish, vivid and intended for performance, embody the very best of Lope's dramatic art.

Author : Ladina Bezzola Lambert,Balz Engler
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0874138604

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Shifting the Scene by Ladina Bezzola Lambert,Balz Engler Pdf

The title of this collection, Shifting the Scene, adapts words from one of the Choruses in Henry V. Its essays try, without denying authority to the text and the theatre, to widen the scene of inquiry to include other institutions, like education, politics, language, and the arts, and to juxtapose the constructions of Shakespeare and his works that have been produced by them. However, as in Henry V, there is also a geographical dimension. The collection goes beyond England and the English-speaking world and focuses on Europe (including Britain). It brings together 17 essays by leading authorities and promising young scholars in the field

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1530080045

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The English-Spanish Shakespeare - Vol II by William Shakespeare Pdf

TO READ OR NOT TO READ, THAT IS THE QUESTION! How many Spanish-speaking people know some English and would like to read Shakespeare's plays just as he wrote them? This parallel text, which contains a well-respected Spanish translation, will help them to do so.

Author : Lukas Erne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2003-03-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521822556

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Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist by Lukas Erne Pdf

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Author : E. Lin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137006509

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Shakespeare and the Materiality of Performance by E. Lin Pdf

Winner of the MRDS 2013 David Bevington Award for Best New Book in Early Drama Studies! Drawing on a wide variety of primary sources, Lin reconstructs playgoers' typical ways of thinking and feeling and demonstrates how these culturally-trained habits of mind shaped dramatic narratives and the presentational dynamics of onstage action.