Religious and Secular Theater in Golden Age Spain

The essays in this book honor the seminal contributions to the field of early modern Spanish drama of Donald T. Dietz, who has devoted his career to the promotion of classical theater not just as dramatic poetry but as vibrant performance art.

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Susan Paun de García, Professor Emerita of Spanish at Denison University, has written on the seventeenth-century Comedia, and the post-baroque Comedia of the early eighteenth century. With Donald R. Larson, she co-edited The Comedia in English (2008) and, with Harley Erdman, she co-edited Remaking the Comedia (2015). Donald R. Larson is Emeritus Professor at the Ohio State University. In addition to numerous articles dealing with Spanish theater, he is the author of The Honor Plays of Lope de Vega (1978) and co-editor, with Susan Paun de García, of The Comedia in English (2008).

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David Gitlitz: Foreword: In the Beginning - Acknowledgments - Susan Paun de García/Donald R. Larson - Matthew D. Stroud: Donald T. Dietz and the Transformation of Comedia Studies - Manuel Delgado Morales: Iluminación divina y luz natural de la razón en el auto y comedia de La vida es sueño - Margaret R. Greer: Manuscript Echoes - A. Robert Lauer: El uso de la silva en el auto sacramental de Calderón: El tesoro escondido - Barbara Mujica: Allegories of Faith: Lope de Vega's Two Extant Plays on Teresa de Ávila - Dakin Matthews: Metatheatricality and Conversion in Lope's Lo fingido verdadero - Susan Paun de García: Staging Mysticism: Cañizares's La más amada de Cristo, Santa Gertrudis la Magna - Isaac Benabu: Teoría y práctica sobre la construcción del héroe trágico en una comedia de asunto bíblico: Los cabellos de Absalón de Calderón - David J. Hildner: Dissimilar Signs of Faith in Calderón's Theater of Intrigue - Sharon D. Voros: Staging Allegory: The Four Virtues in María de San Alberto and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz - Robert M. Johnston: The Dramatic Stagecraft of Calderón: Stage Movement and Proxemic Relations in El alcalde de Zalamea - William R. Blue: Looking Back: Lope's El marido más firme - Donald R. Larson: Staging the Pavane: Dance as Metaphor in El desdén, con el desdén - Valerie Hegstrom/Dale J. Pratt: Mentoring Spanish Theater Performance and Service Learning: The BYU Spanish Golden Age Theater Project's Production of Guillén de Castro's El Narciso en su opinión - Amy R. Williamsen: Performance as Discovery: Questioning Quevedo's Entremeses and Zayas's La traición en la amistad - Susan L. Fischer: Redefining "Boundary Conditions" of Comedia Studies-If Not Now, When?: (Re)emergence of Close Reading and Digital Humanities - Bradley J. Nelson: Calderón's La aurora en Copacabana, a Scandalous Reading - Catherine Larson: Translating Hispanic Women Dramatists in the Twenty-First Century: Are We There Yet? - Bruce R. Burningham: Dogville, Jazz Club Polonia, and the Ethics of Adaptation - Christopher D. Gascón: Abjection and Resistance in El retablo de las maravillas, Visiones de la muerte, and Las cortes de la muerte: Andrés Zambrano's Tres obras cortas del Siglo de Oro (2011) - Christopher B. Weimer: Calderón on the BBC: Radio Translation, Adaptation, and Performance - Edward H. Friedman: Changing for the Better, or Worse: Adapting Juan Ruiz de Alarcón - Contributors - Tabula Gratulatoria - Index.