Reading for the stage : Calderón and his contemporaries / Isaac Benabu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Benabu, Isaac.

Series:

Colección Támesis. Monografías ; Serie A, 194.

Colección Támesis. Serie A, Monografías ; 194

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681--Dramatic production.

Calderón de la Barca, Pedro.

Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681.

Spanish drama--Classical period, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

Spanish drama.

Physical Description:

viii, 96 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Woodbridge, UK ; Rochester, NY : Tamesis, 2003.

Summary:

Approaches to the playtext applied to the works of Calderon and his contemporaries. The focus of this book falls less on performance and more on how the playtext may be approached from a theatrical viewpoint. In the theatre, the playtext, addressed traditionally to the theatre professional rather than the average reader, is usually read by the company at an initial stage in the production of a play. The process by which this type of reading 'opens' the text differs from a literary reading of the text. The result of such an analysis gives new insights into the theatrical text and the playwright's coded directions as to how to translate its content from page to stage. The theoretical premises explored here may be applied as much to a reading of the plays of Calderon's European near-contemporaries as to Calderon and his contemporaries at the birth of the commercial theatre in seventeenth-century Spain: indeed, the book makes frequent reference to Shakespearean playtexts and their bibliography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [87]-93) and index.

ISBN:

1855660881

OCLC:

51581802