A History of Spanish Golden Age Drama
A History of Spanish Golden Age Drama

Author: Henry K. Ziomek

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2014-07-15

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0813164974

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Spain's Golden Age, the seventeenth century, left the world one great legacy, the flower of its dramatic genius—the comedia. The work of the Golden Age playwrights represents the largest combined body of dramatic literature from a single historical period, comparable in magnitude to classical tragedy and comedy, to Elizabethan drama, and to French neoclassical theater. A History of Spanish Golden Age Drama is the first up-to-date survey of the history of the comedia, with special emphasis on critical approaches developed during the past ten years. A history of the comedia necessarily focuses on the work of Lope de Vega and Calderon de la Barca, but Ziomek also gives full credit to the host of lesser dramatists who followed in the paths blazed by Lope and Calderon, and whose individual contributions to particular genres added to the richness of Spanish theater. He also examines the profound influence of the comedia on the literature of other cultures.

Shakespeare and the Spanish Comedia
Shakespeare and the Spanish Comedia

Author: Bárbara Mujica

Publisher: Bucknell University Press

Published: 2013-10-03

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 1611485185

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Shakespeare and the Spanish Comedia is a nearly unique transnational study of the theater / performance traditions of early modern Spain and England. Divided into three parts, the book focuses first on translating for the stage, examining diverse approaches to the topic. It asks, for example, whether plays should be translated to sound as if they were originally written in the target language or if their “foreignness” should be maintained and even highlighted. Section II deals with interpretation and considers such issues as uses of polyphony, the relationship between painting and theater, and representations of women. Section III highlights performance issues such as music in modern performances of classical theater and the construction of stage character. Written by a highly respected group of British and American scholars and theater practitioners, this book challenges the traditional divide between the academy and the stage and between one theatrical culture and another.

Spanish, Catalan, and Galician Literary Authors of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Spanish, Catalan, and Galician Literary Authors of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Author: David S. Zubatsky

Publisher: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13:

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A companion volume to the author's acclaimed Spanish, Catalan, and Galician Literary Authors of the Twentieth Century (Scarecrow, 1992), this bibliography provides a comprehensive index to published bibliographies that list a literary author's works and/or critical studies about the works. In addition to novelists, playwrights, poets, and short story writers, the guide also covers bibliographies for linguists, literary critics, and historians who lived in the eighteenth and/or nineteenth centuries and who wrote in Spanish, Catalan, and/or Galician. The first section is arranged by author and citations describe the bibliography's arrangement, content, number of entries, and, wherever possible, strengths and weaknesses. Bibliographies that have appeared in books, festschriften, journals, serials, and general bibliographic compilations are the sources for the citations. The second section lists additional bio-bibliographical sources.