Tirso de Molina: Jealous of Herself

Tirso de Molina: Jealous of Herself
Author:
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2012-06-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1800345070

Tirso de Molina's Jealous of Herself (c. 1622-23) is an ingenious comedy of disguise and deception, set in the streets, plazas and fashionable apartments of early 17th-century Madrid.

A Star-crossed Golden Age

A Star-crossed Golden Age
Author: Frederick A. De Armas
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1998
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780838753767

This collection of essays grew out of a National Endowment for the Humanities Institute directed by Frederick A. de Armas and contains essays by the director, some of the visiting faculty, and the participants. The book seeks to develop the link between mythology and the comedia through a number of approaches, including astrology, cartomancy, pre-Socratic elemental cosmology, iconography, hagiography, metamorphoses, Lacanian psychoanalysis, Jungian principles, the philosophy of Schopenhauer, Santayana's poetics, syncretism, gender studies, and Vedic theories.

Tirso de Molina

Tirso de Molina
Author: Esther Fernández
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2023-09-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1855663716

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.

The Literature of Jealousy in the Age of Cervantes

The Literature of Jealousy in the Age of Cervantes
Author: Steven Wagschal
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2006
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0826265677

"Explores the theme of jealousy in early modern Spanish literature through the works of Lope de Vega, Cervantes, and Gongora. Using the philosophical frameworks of Vives, Descartes, Freud, and DeSousa, Wagschal proposes that the theme of jealousy offered a means for working through political and cultural problems involving power"--Provided by publisher.

Sins of the Fathers

Sins of the Fathers
Author: Hilaire Kallendorf
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 540
Release: 2013-12-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 144266102X

Sins of the Fathers considers sins as nodes of cultural anxiety and explores the tensions between competing organizational categories for moral thought and behaviours, namely the Seven Deadly Sins and the Ten Commandments. Hilaire Kallendorf explores the decline and rise of these organizational categories against critical transformations of the early modern period, such as the accession of Spain to a position of world dominance and the arrival of a new courtly culture to replace an old warrior ethos. This ground-breaking study is the first to consider Spanish Golden Age comedias as an archive of moral knowledge. Kallendorf has examined over 800 of these plays to illustrate how they provide insight into aspects of early modern experience such as food, sex, work, and money. Finally, Kallendorf engages the theoretical terminology of Marxist literary criticism to demonstrate the inherent ambiguity of cultural change.

Staging the Spanish Golden Age

Staging the Spanish Golden Age
Author: Kathleen Jeffs
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2018
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 019881934X

This book takes the reader through the translation and performance processes of the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2004-05 Spanish Golden Age season to establish a model for translating, rehearsing, and performing Spanish Golden Age drama.

The Achillean Hero in the Plays of Tirso de Molina

The Achillean Hero in the Plays of Tirso de Molina
Author: Nina Maria Shecktor
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2009
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780820433103

Tirso de Molina has been the subject of less than half as much scholarly research as either of his Golden Age counterparts, Lope de Vega and Calderón de la Barca. Tirso's only mythological play, El Aquiles, remains one of the least studied of his plays, and when studied, is generally considered in isolation from the rest of his dramatic production. The Achillean Hero in the Plays of Tirso de Molina traces the development of the figure of the Achillean hero in three of Tirso's plays, El Aquiles, La vida y muerte de Herodes, and La venganza de Tamar, and in doing so connects the early mythological play to the dramatist's later works.

Don Gil de Las Calzas Verdes

Don Gil de Las Calzas Verdes
Author: Tirso de Molina
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 1991
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0856684651

Tirso de Molina enjoys enduring popularity as a writer of irreverent comedies, though his critical reputation as a major dramatist rests largely on his more serious works.

Calderon: Love Is No Laughing Matter

Calderon: Love Is No Laughing Matter
Author: Sean Page
Publisher:
Total Pages: 241
Release: 1986-01-15
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0856683655

Although Calderon's comedy has received rather less attention than the other genres in which he excelled, it is widely acknowledged that his comic plays are inrivalled among his contemporaries in terms of plot structure and technical expertise; they also explore contemporary issues to an extent which has not been appreciated. "