Remaking the Comedia - Spanish Classical Theater in Adaptation

Leading Golden Age theatre experts examine the ways that comedias have been adapted and reinvented, offering a broad performance history of the genre for scholars and practicioners alike.

List of contents

Preface
Terms and Concepts: The Adaptation of Classical Texts for the Stage
"Los senderos qu se bifurcan": Adaptation, Appropriation, and the Proliferation of Possibilities
Interpretative Directing Games for the Golden Age Repertory
Re-Make, Re-Mix, Re-Model
Refundación Redux: Revisiting the Rewritten Comedia
Pepe Estruch and the Performance of Golden Age Drama: International Relationships under Franco and Democratic Theatrical Cultures
Thinking Globally, Acting Locally, and Performing Nationalism: Local, National, and Global Remakes of the Comedia
Four Decades of the Chamizal Siglo de Oro Drama Festival and the Evolution of Comedia Performance
Early Modern Dramaturgas: A Contemporary Performance History
Adapting Lope de Vega for the English-Speaking Stage
The Dog in the Manger: The Continuum of Transformation
El Caballero de Olmedo: Los Barracos's Baroque Gentleman
Corpus Lorqui: Transformation and Transubstantiation in Los Barracos de Federico's El caballero de Olmedo
The Phoenix of Madrid: Calderón's No hay burlas con el amor Reborn in Bath
A Prince in Pittsburgh: "Recasting" a Contemporary Staging of The Constant Prince
Directing Marta the Divine: Provocative Choices in the Service of the Story
The Dramaturgy of Absence: Minding the Gaps in Tirso de Molina, Ana Caro, and Feliciana Enríquez
Translations and Transgressions: Twenty-First Century Questions Regarding Zayas
Comedia Actresses, Then and Now: The Case of Ana Caro's Valor, agravio y mujer
"Kinesthetic Empathy" and the Comedia Refundición
Porous Boundaries: Novela or Comedia?
Lope de Vega and Lenfilm: The Dog in the Manger's Cross-Cultural Journey
Classical Theater and Puppetry: La Máquina Real
Remaking Moreto's El Desdén con el desdén: From Author's Text to Director's Text
Lope's Peribáñez on the Lyric Stage
A Musical Marta
Appendix: Play Titles Cited
Works Cited

About the author

Harley Erdman, Susan Paun de García

Product details

• Authors: Susan Paun De Garcia, Harley Erdman, Susan Paun De Garcia, Susan Paun de Garcia
• Assisted by: Harley Erdman (Editor), Harley (Author) Erdman (Editor), Susan Paun de (Author) Garcia (Editor), Susan Paun de García (Editor), Susan Paun de Garcia (Editor), Susan Paun de García (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.04.2015
• EAN: 9781855662926
• ISBN: 978-1-85566-292-6
• No. of pages: 323
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 242 mm x 26 mm
• Weight: 828 g
• Illustrations: 16 b/w illus.
• Series: Coleccion Tamesis: Serie A, Monografias; Monografias A; Coleccion Tamesis: Serie A, Monografias; Monografías a
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies