Social Justice In Spanish Golden Age Theater

Author : Erin Cowling,Tania de Miguel Magro,Mina Garcia-Soormally,Glenda y Nieto-Cuebas
Publisher : Toronto Iberic
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1487507658

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Social Justice in Spanish Golden Age Theatre by Erin Cowling,Tania de Miguel Magro,Mina Garcia-Soormally,Glenda y Nieto-Cuebas Pdf

This book explores early modern Spanish plays through the lens of social justice, extending its analysis to contemporary adaptations and how they can be used as a tool for achieving social justice today.

Author : Erin Alice Cowling,Tania de Miguel Magro,Mina Garcia Jordán,Glenda Y. Nieto-Cuebas
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781487525286

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Social Justice in Spanish Golden Age Theater by Erin Alice Cowling,Tania de Miguel Magro,Mina Garcia Jordán,Glenda Y. Nieto-Cuebas Pdf

This book explores early modern Spanish plays through the lens of social justice, extending its analysis to contemporary adaptations and how they can be used as a tool for achieving social justice today.

Author : Erin Cowling,Tania de Miguel Magro,Mina Garcia Jordán,Glenda Y. Nieto-Cuebas
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487536688

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Social Justice in Spanish Golden Age Theatre by Erin Cowling,Tania de Miguel Magro,Mina Garcia Jordán,Glenda Y. Nieto-Cuebas Pdf

This collection of original new essays focuses on the many ways in which early modern Spanish plays engaged their audiences in a dialogue about abuse, injustice, and inequality. Far from the traditional monolithic view of theatrical works as tools for expanding ideology, these essays each recognize the power of theatre in reflecting on issues related to social justice. The first section of the book focuses on textual analysis, taking into account legal, feminist, and collective bargaining theory. The second section explores issues surrounding theatricality, performativity, and intellectual property laws through an analysis of contemporary adaptations. The final section reflects on social justice from the practitioners’ point of view, including actors and directors. Social Justice in Spanish Golden Age Theatre reveals how adaptations of classical theatre portray social justice and how throughout history the writing and staging of comedias has been at the service of a wide range of political agendas.

Author : Esther Fernández
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781855663718

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Tirso de Molina by Esther Fernández Pdf

The first comprehensive study of Tirso de Molina and his work in English Tirso de Molina (c.1583-c.1648) may not have written El Burlador de Sevilla, but the works of this prolific author, one of the three pillars of Golden Age Spanish theatre, are notable for their erudition, complex characters, and wit. Informed by a multidisciplinary critical perspective, this volume sets Tirso's plays and prose in their social, historical, literary, and cultural contexts. Contributors from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Spain offer a state of the art in current scholarship, considering such topics as gender, identity, spatiality, material culture, and creative performativity, among others. The first volume in English to provide a richly detailed overview of Tirso's life and work, Tirso de Molina: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Twenty-First Century grounds the reader in canonical theories while suggesting new approaches, attuned to contemporary interests, to his legacy.

Author : Anita K. Stoll,Dawn L. Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015021860567

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The Perception of Women in Spanish Theater of the Golden Age by Anita K. Stoll,Dawn L. Smith Pdf

Author : Alexander Augustine Parker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Spanish drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012383399

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The Approach to the Spanish Drama of the Golden Age by Alexander Augustine Parker Pdf

Author : Emiro Martínez-Osorio,Mercedes Blanco
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487546335

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The War Trumpet by Emiro Martínez-Osorio,Mercedes Blanco Pdf

The epic poems written during the rise of Portugal and Spain on the global stage often dealt with topics quite unimaginable to the likes of Virgil or Homer. These poems reveal the astounding opportunities for upward social mobility and self-promotion afforded by broader access to print and the vast amount of knowledge and material wealth accrued through maritime exploration. Iberian poets of the period were quite cognizant of their ventures into uncharted territory, and that awareness informed their literary journeys. The War Trumpet features nine substantial essays that expand our understanding of Iberian Renaissance epic poetry by posing questions seldom raised in relation to poems such as La Araucana, Os Lusíadas, Carlo famoso, El Bernardo, Arauco Domado, Espejo de paciencia, and Felicissima Victoria, among others. Particularly compelling are questions concerned with early modern understandings of the natural world, the practice of poetic imitation, the discipline of cartography, or the reception of Petrarchism in the newly established viceroyalties of the New World. Fostering a greater appreciation of the intersection between poetry, war, and exploration, The War Trumpet sheds light on the transformative changes that took place during the period of Iberian expansion.

Author : Christine Arkinstall
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487546274

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Women on War in Spain’s Long Nineteenth Century by Christine Arkinstall Pdf

The ways in which women have historically authorized themselves to write on war has blurred conventionally gendered lines, intertwining the personal with the political. Women on War in Spain’s Long Nineteenth Century explores, through feminist lenses, the cultural representations of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Spanish women’s texts on war. Reshaping the current knowledge and understanding of key female authors in Spain’s fin de siècle, this book examines works by notable writers – including Rosario de Acuña, Blanca de los Rios, Concepción Arenal, and Carmen de Burgos – as they engage with the War of Independence, the Third Carlist War, Spain’s colonial wars, and World War I. The selected works foreground how women’s representations of war can challenge masculine conceptualizations of public and domestic spheres. Christine Arkinstall analyses the works’ overarching themes and symbols, such as honour, blood, the Virgin and the Mother, and the intersecting sexual, social, and racial contracts. In doing so, Arkinstall highlights how these texts imagine outcomes that deviate from established norms of femininity, offer new models to Spanish women, and interrogate the militaristic foundations of patriarchal societies.

Author : Esther Fernández,Adrienne L. Martin
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487538934

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Drawing the Curtain by Esther Fernández,Adrienne L. Martin Pdf

Miguel de Cervantes’s experimentation with theatricality is frequently tied to the notion of revelation and disclosure of hidden truths. Drawing the Curtain showcases the elements of theatricality that characterize Cervantes’s prose and analyses the ways in which he uses theatricality in his own literary production. Bringing together the works of well-known scholars, who draw from a variety of disciplines and theoretical approaches, this collection demonstrates how Cervantes exploits revelation and disclosure to create dynamic dramatic moments that surprise and engage observers and readers. Hewing closely to Peter Brook’s notion of the bare or empty stage, Esther Fernández and Adrienne L. Martín argue that Cervantes’s omnipresent concern with theatricality manifests not only in his drama but also in the myriad metatheatrical instances dispersed throughout his prose works. In doing so, Drawing the Curtain sheds light on the ways in which Cervantes forces his readers to engage with themes that are central to his life and works, including love, freedom, truth, confinement, and otherness.

Author : Julia Dominguez
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487543938

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Quixotic Memories by Julia Dominguez Pdf

The work of Miguel de Cervantes – one of the most influential writers in early modern Europe – is a reflection of the rich culture of memory in which it was created. More than a theme, memory is a system of understanding in Cervantes’s world, resulting from the major social, religious, and economic changes that epitomized Renaissance humanist culture and that informed the transition to modernity. Quixotic Memories offers insight into the plurality and complexity of memory and demonstrates how it plays an exceptionally critical role in Cervantes’s Don Quixote. It acknowledges Cervantes’s transition into modernity as he engaged with theories of memory that were developed in classical antiquity and adapted to the specific circumstances of his own time. Julia Domínguez explores the many spaces that memory created for itself in early modern Spain, particularly in the fields of philosophy, medicine, rhetoric, mnemotechnics, the visual arts, and pedagogy. Engaging with primary and archival sources, Quixotic Memories provides a new reading of Cervantes’s famous novel by tracing the socio-historical and cultural prominence of memory throughout the author’s lifetime.

Author : Enrique Fernández
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487549800

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The Image of Celestina by Enrique Fernández Pdf

La Celestina, a Spanish literary masterpiece second only in importance to Don Quixote in Spanish literature, has been shaped by the inclusion of images from its very first edition in 1499. The subsequent five centuries were punctuated by many illustrated editions; imaginary portraits of the eponymous procuress Celestina by painters such as Murillo, Goya, and Picasso; and, more recently, screen and stage adaptations. Celestina became the prototype from which later representations of procuresses and bawds derived. The Image of Celestina sheds light on the visual culture that developed around La Celestina, including paintings, illustrations, and advertisements. Enrique Fernández examines La Celestina as a mixed-media text, incorporating methods from disciplines such as art history and women’s and cinema studies, and considers a variety of images including promotional posters, lobby pictures, and playbills of theatrical and cinematic adaptations of the book. Using a visual studies approach, The Image of Celestina ultimately illuminates the culture of Celestina, a mythical figure, who surpasses the literary text in which she originated.

Author : Robert L. Fiore
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813186139

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Drama and Ethos by Robert L. Fiore Pdf

Spanish Golden Age drama as an expression of morality falls between the extremes of art-for-art's-sake and utilitarianism. According to Spanish literary critics of the 16th and 17th centuries, drama imitated reality, the subject and domain of philosophy. The integration of drama and scholastic moral philosophy was an important aspect of the critical theory of this era, which held that art should both teach and delight. Through close textual analysis of representative plays, this book examines the artistic fusion of natural-law philosophy and drama. It demonstrates the relationship between ethics and the central ideological themes of these works, illustrating that an awareness of the doctrines of natural law ethics is crucial to an enriched comprehension of the drama of Golden Age Spain.

Author : Alban K. Forcione
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300153309

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Majesty and Humanity by Alban K. Forcione Pdf

In reinterpreting two of Lope de Vega's plays, Forcione places his texts in the context of political and institutional history philosophy, theology, and art history. In doing so he shows how Spanish theatre anticipated the decisive changes in human consciousness that characterized the ascendence of the absolutist state.

Author : Henryk Ziomek
Publisher : Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002580301

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A History of Spanish Golden Age Drama by Henryk Ziomek Pdf

Author : Elena García-Martín
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781611488340

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Rural Revisions of Golden Age Drama by Elena García-Martín Pdf

This work examines important social, geo-political, cultural and artistic components involving the staging, both past and contemporary, rural and urban, amateur and professional, of some of the most relevant Spanish Golden Age historical plays.