A companion to early modern Hispanic theater / edited by Hilaire Kallendorf.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kallendorf, Hilaire, 1974- editor of compilation.

Series:

Renaissance Society of America texts and studies series ; Volume 2.

Renaissance Society of America Texts and Studies Series, 2212-3091 ; Volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Spanish drama.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 Martín, Enrique García Santo Tomás, Matthew Stroud, Teresa Scott Soufas, Enrique Fernández, María Mercedes Carrión, Robert Bayliss, Ted Bergman, Cory Reed, Maryrica Lottman, Christina Lee, and Enrique Duarte.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction / Craig Kallendorf

Celestina as Closet Drama / Enrique Fernández 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

Honor/Honra Revisited / A. Robert Lauer

The Wife-Murder Plays / Matthew D. Stroud

’Til Play Do Us Part: Marriage, Law, and the Comedia / María M. Carrión

Onstage/Backstage: Animals in the Golden Age Comedia / Adrienne L. Martín

Entremeses and Other Forms of Teatro Breve / Ted L. L. Bergman

On Speed and Restlessness: Calderón’s Urban Kaleidoscope / Enrique García Santo-Tomás

The New World in Lope de Vega’s Columbus and St. Christopher: El nuevo mundo descubierto por Cristóbal Colón / 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

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-26301-2

OCLC:

873140978

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004263017 DOI