A companion to early modern Hispanic theater

Author(s)

• Kallendorf, Hilaire

Bibliographic Information

A companion to early modern Hispanic theater

edited by Hilaire Kallendorf

（The Renaissance Society of America / editor-in-chief, Craig Kallendorf, . Texts and studies series ; v. 2）

Brill, c2014

• : hardback

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-369) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

A panoramic, state-of-the-art handbook destined to chart a course for future work in the field of early modern Hispanic theater studies. It begins in the closet with an essay on Celestina as closet drama and moves out into the court to explore intersections with courtly love. An essay on the comedia and the classics demonstrates this genre's firm grounding in the classical tradition, despite Lope de Vega's famous protestations to the contrary. Distinct but related genres such as the autos sacramentales and the entremeses also make an appearance. The traditional themes of honor and wife-murder share the stage with less familiar topics like the incorporation of animals into performance. This volume covers the urban space of the city in Spain and Portugal as well as uncharted territories in the New World and Japan. Essays on emblems and the picaresque round out this anthology, along with studies of theatrical representations of early modern innovations in science and technology. The book concludes with two different psychoanalytical approaches, focused on melancholy and Lacanian tragedy, respectively. This collection incorporates the work of younger scholars along with established names in the field to synthesize the most exciting recent work on the comedia and related forms of early modern Hispanic theatrical production. Contributors include: Ignacio Arellano, Frederick de Armas, Henry Sullivan, Edward Friedman, A. Robert Lauer, Manuel Delgado, Adrienne Martin, Enrique Garcia Santo Tomas, Matthew Stroud, Teresa Scott Soufas, Enrique Fernandez, Maria Mercedes Carrion, Robert Bayliss, Ted Bergman, Cory Reed, Maryrica Lottman, Christina Lee, and Enrique Duarte.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors List of Figures Introduction PART ONE - ORIGINS Celestina as Closet Drama Enrique Fernandez Rivera Courtly Love and the Comedia Robert Bayliss The Comedia and the Classics Frederick A. de Armas Spanish Sacramental Plays: A Study of Their Evolution J. Enrique Duarte PART TWO - THEMES Honor/Honra Revisited A. Robert Lauer The Wife-Murder Plays Matthew D. Stroud 'Til Play Do Us Part: Marriage, Law, and the Comedia Maria M. Carrion Onstage/Backstage: Animals in the Golden Age Comedia Adrienne L. Martin Entremeses and Other Forms of Teatro Breve Ted L. L. Bergman PART THREE - PLACES On Speed and Restlessness: Calderon's Urban Kaleidoscope Enrique Garcia Santo-Tomas The New World in Lope de Vega's Columbus and St. Christopher: El nuevo mundo descubierto por Cristobal Colon Maryrica Ortiz Lottman The Quest for Spiritual Transcendence in the Theater of Gil Vicente Manuel Delgado Morales Lope de Vega and The Martyrs of Japan Christina H. Lee PART FOUR - INTERSECTIONS Picaresque Sensibility and the Comedia Edward H. Friedman Emblems at the Golden Age Theater Ignacio Arellano Science, Instrumentality, and Chaotics in Early Modern Spanish Drama Cory A. Reed Melancholy, the Comedia, and Early Modern Psychology Teresa Scott Soufas Jacques Lacan and Tragic Drama in the Golden Age of Spain Henry W. Sullivan Chapter Summaries Select Bibliography Index

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Details

• NCID: BD04593249
• ISBN:
  • 9789004234567
• LCCN: 2013036178
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Leiden
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 388 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PQ6105
  • DC23 : 862/.309
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Spanish drama -- Classical period, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB15985701