Beschreibung
This volume, organized in five major sections, honors the myriad scholarly contributions of Matthew D. Stroud to the field of Early Modern Spanish theater. Building upon Stroud’s seminal studies, each section of essays simultaneously claims and wrestles with aspects of the rich legacy generated by his explorations.
Autorenportrait
Gwyn E. Campbell (PhD, Princeton) is Professor of Spanish at Washington and Lee University. Her co-edited volumes include:
; and a critical edition of Leonor de Meneses’s
Amy R. Williamsen (PhD, University of Southern California) is Professor of Spanish at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. In addition to her book
Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda, her co-edited volumes include:
and
Inhalt
Contents: David J. Hildner: Wife-Murder Deflected: How Stage Husbands’ Prudence and Ingenuity Lead to Differing Outcomes – Susan L. Fischer: «Nada me digas»: Silencing and Silence in
Domestic Relationships – Katrina M. Heil: Mencía as Tragic Hero in Calderón’s
– Ezra Engling: We Too Suffer: Calderón’s Honor Husbands – William R. Blue:
: A Crisis of Interpretation – Manuel Delgado: Incest, Natural Law and Social Order in
– Gwyn E. Campbell: Duelling (Dis)Honour in Mira de Amescua’s
– Christopher Weimer: Ovid, Gender, and the Potential for Tragedy in
– Barbara F. Weissberger: The Queen’s Dreams: Lope’s Representation of Queen Isabel I in
and
– Barbara Simerka: Mirror Neurons and Mirror Metaphors: Cognitive Theory and
in
– Robert M. Johnston - The Calderonian Aesthetic Experience: Plot, Character, Politics, and Primal Emotions in
(What Neuroscience and US Presidential Campaigns Might Tell Us about the Spanish Comedia) Catherine Connor-Swietlicki: Gendered Gazing: Zayas and Caro Go Back to the Future of the «Artful Brain and Body» – Edward H. Friedman:
Of Love and Labyrinths: Feminism and the
– Baltasar Fra-Molinero: Woman, Learning, and Fear: Racial Mixing in Diego Ximénez de Enciso’s
– Kathleen Regan : Antona García: A
for the 21st Century – Susan Paun de García: «Más valéis vos, Antona»: Worthy Wives in Lope, Tirso, and Cañizares – Sharon D. Voros: Tried and True: Leonor de la Cueva y Silva’s Tirso Connection – Barbara Mujica: Actresses as Athletes and Acrobats – Amy R. Williamsen: Stages of Passing: Identity and Performance in the Comedia – Peter E. Thompson: The Spanish Golden Age
in English: Translating the Juan Rana Phenomenon – Maryrica Ortiz Lottman: Three Productions of
: The Devil’s Polymorphism in Our Time – Catherine Larson: Adapting the Spanish Classics for 21st-Century Performance in English: Models for Analysis – Henry W. Sullivan: The Contours of Self-Representation: Why Call Himself Tirso de Molina? – Isaac Benabu: Inquisitorial Pressures: Honour as Metaphor on the Boards – Ronald E. Surtz: Staging the Fall in 16th-Century Spain: The
– Kerry Wilks: Baltasar Funes y Villalpando’s
: An Homage to Calderón? – Thomas A. O’Connor: The Transformation of a Baroque
into an 18th-Century Opera: The Case of Salazar y Torres’s
– Donald R. Larson: Two Visions of Brotherhood: Calderón and Richard Strauss.
