Rural revisions of Golden Age drama : performance of history, production of space / Elena García-Martín.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

García-Martín, Elena, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Spanish drama.

Theater--Spain--History--16th century.

Theater.

Theater--Spain--History--17th century.

Theater and society.

History.

Theater--Production and direction.

Spain.

Theater--Production and direction--Spain.

Theater and society--Spain--History.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 189 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lewisburg [Pennsylvania] : Bucknell University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : Copublished by The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2017]

Summary:

Rural Revisions of Golden Age Drama on rural community versions of Spanish Early Modern Theatre and deals with cultural heritage and the contemporary impact of Golden Age theatre on local rural communities. Elena García-Martín examine the burgeoning of annual rural Golden Age theatre festivals that generate site-centered, non-professional productions of the plays and revisit the conflict between tradition and innovation, between popular and high culture, as well as between authority of literary heritage and the people's right to the canon. The selection of Early Modern plays set in actual Spanish communities-Fuenteovejuna, El Alcalde de Zalamea, Numancia, and Los tres blasones de España-renders an overview of the effect of these important works on their respective communities and focuses on the theatrical festivals as peripheral, subaltern, hybrid cultural phenomena. García-Martín take into consideration not only traditional and significant studies on these four renowned plays, but also recent theories on staging, performance and popular reception and agency. The research presented in this book crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries between literature, history, geography, and politics by centering on the appropriation and re-examination of a past that is continuously revised through contemporary performance, and which is adjusted to fit the needs and desires of the context in which it is interpreted. This diachronic approach allows for a new perspective on contemporary performances which question cultural politics, redefine tradition and transcend geo-political boundaries. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: performances of Golden Age theatre at the margins: shaping local

Identities and cultural traditions

Local readings and cultural politics of space in Fuenteovejuna

The ritual in everyday practices: participatory culture and El Alcalde de Zalamea

Unity of place, the true protagonist: Calahorra in Los tres blasones de España

Numancia: from oral tradition to historical 'truth'

Conclusion: Golden age theatre of resistance.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: García-Martín, Elena, author. Rural revisions of Golden Age drama

ISBN:

9781611488333

1611488338

OCLC:

973920599