Woman and Society in the Spanish Drama of the Golden Age

Woman and Society in the Spanish Drama of the Golden Age
Author: Melveena McKendrick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 366
Release: 1974-07-04
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0521202949

An identification and analysis of Spanish Golden-Age drama's preoccupation with the woman who will not accept marriage as her natural role.

McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama

McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama
Author: McGraw-Hill, inc
Publisher: VNR AG
Total Pages: 538
Release: 1984
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780070791695

Ranging from the earliest drama to the theater of the 1980's this encyclopedia includes coverage of national drama and theater around the world, theater companies, and musical comedy. Arrangement of the 1,300 entries is alphabetically by name or subject with nearly 950 of these devoted to individual playwrights and their works.

A History of Spanish Golden Age Drama

A History of Spanish Golden Age Drama
Author: Henry K. Ziomek
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2021-05-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0813183561

Spain's Golden Age, the seventeenth century, left the world one great legacy, the flower of its dramatic genius—the comedia. The work of the Golden Age playwrights represents the largest combined body of dramatic literature from a single historical period, comparable in magnitude to classical tragedy and comedy, to Elizabethan drama, and to French neoclassical theater. A History of Spanish Golden Age Drama is the first up-to-date survey of the history of the comedia, with special emphasis on critical approaches developed during the past ten years. A history of the comedia necessarily focuses on the work of Lope de Vega and Calderon de la Barca, but Ziomek also gives full credit to the host of lesser dramatists who followed in the paths blazed by Lope and Calderon, and whose individual contributions to particular genres added to the richness of Spanish theater. He also examines the profound influence of the comedia on the literature of other cultures.

Lope de Vega's Comedias de Tema Religioso

Lope de Vega's Comedias de Tema Religioso
Author: Elaine M. Canning
Publisher: Tamesis Books
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2004
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781855660304

Lope's use of self-reverential devices in Lo fingido verdadero and La buena guarda serves to highlight the illusory nature of life and the relationship between lo verdadero and lo divino which lie at the heart of the theocentric world view of seventeenth-century Spain. The conflicting imperatives of human and divine love and the issue of identity are features of all of the plays. Furthermore, it is illustrated that the interplay between illusion and reality and the relationship between playwright and audience are crucial to Lope's dramatic output."--Jacket.

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Total Pages: 314
Release: 1911
Genre: Electronic journals
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Provides image and full-text online access to back issues. Consult the online table of contents for specific holdings.

Golden Age Drama in Contemporary Spain

Golden Age Drama in Contemporary Spain
Author: Duncan Wheeler
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2012-04-15
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0708324754

This is the first monograph on the performance and reception of sixteenth- and seventeenth- century national drama in contemporary Spain, which attempts to remedy the traditional absence of performance-based approaches in Golden Age studies. The book contextualises the socio-historical background to the modern-day performance of the country’s three major Spanish baroque playwrights (Calderón de la Barca, Lope de Vega and Tirso de Molina), whilst also providing detailed aesthetic analyses of individual stage and screen adaptations.

Remaking the Comedia

Remaking the Comedia
Author: Harley Erdman
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2015
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1855662922

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. This volume brings together twenty-six essays from the world's leading scholars and practitioners of Spanish Golden Age theatre. Examining the startlingly wide variety of ways that Spanish comedias have been adapted, re-envisioned, and reinvented, the book makes the case that adaptation is a crucial lens for understanding the performance history of the genre. The essays cover a wide range of topics, from the early stage history of the comedia through numerous modern and contemporary case studies, as well as the transformation of the comedia into other dramatic genres, such as films, musicals, puppetry, and opera. The essays themselves are brief and accessible to non-specialists. This book will appeal not only to Golden Age scholars and students but also to theater practitioners, as well as to anyone interested in the theory and practice of adaptation. Harley Erdman is Professor of Theaterat the University of Massachusetts, Amherst Susan Paun de García is Professor of Spanish at Denison University. Contributors: Sergio Adillo Rufo, Karen Berman, Robert E. Bayliss, Laurence Boswell, Bruce R.Burningham, Amaya Curieses Irarte, Rick Davis, Harley Erdman, Susan L. Fischer, Charles Victor Ganelin, Francisco García Vicente, Alejandro González Puche, Valerie Hegstrom, Kathleen Jeffs, David Johnston, Gina Kaufmann, Catherine Larson, Donald R. Larson, Barbara Mujica, Susan Paun de García, Felipe B. Pedraza Jiménez, Veronika Ryjik, Jonathan Thacker, Laura L. Vidler, Duncan Wheeler, Amy Williamsen, Jason Yancey