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Iberian Books Volumes II & III / Libros Ibéricos Volúmenes II y III (2 vols)
Iberian Books II & III presents an indispensable foundational listing of everything known to have been published in Spain, Portugal and the New World, or of items printed in Spanish or Portuguese elsewhere, during the first half of the seventeenth century. Drawing on library catalogues, specialist bibliographies and studies, as well as auction catalogue records, Iberian Books lists 45,000 items, and the locations of some 215,000 copies surviving in 1,800 collections worldwide. These volumes offer a powerful research tool which will appeal to researchers, librarians and to the book selling and collecting communities. They will prove invaluable to anyone with a research interest in the literat...
La escuela de Calderʹon
This is a critical evaluation of the dramatic art and ideology of the School of Caleron. In the first part ideological preoccupations, artistic attidues and theatrical conditions in the Baroque era are discussed. In the second part selected plays are analyzed. The book explores the range ofdramatic genres employed by Calderon and his school, together with the principal causes of decline in quality of plays and playwrights in the final decades of the Golden Age. Among the dramatists covered are Rojas Zorilla and Agustin Moreto.
Feminizing the Enemy
Donnell engages gender theory and cultural studies in order to shed light on cross-dressing- a common though poorly understood practice- in plays performed in Spain and Colonial Spanish America during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The author shows how certain naturalized assumptions about masculinity and femininity are unmasked through the cross-dressed performance of works attributed to Lope de Rueda, Morales, Lope de Vega, Monroy y Silva, and Calderon.
A History of Spanish Golden Age Drama
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.
Las Mocedades del Duque de Osuna
The Duke of Osuna escapes from prison and goes in pursuit of a famous swordsman, Afanador, to see how good a fighter he really is. Plays various pranks on his way, always rewarding his victims with double or three times the value of the damaged goods, meets a former lover and gathers some followers who join him on his trip to Flanders. The play ends with the duke and his friends being imprisoned at first and then pardoned and praised by the King of France who had witnessed a tumultuous clash between Spaniards and Frenchmen at a play performance, provoked by an insult to the dignity of the the King of Spain by one of the French actors. The French King admired the duke's nobility, his patriotism, courage , valor and extreme dedication and respect shown to his king. Trabajo en todos aspectos meritorio, esta magnífica obra del Profesor Manuel Barroca tiene la virtud de ofrecer al lector un lúcido análisis a una curiosa faceta de la obra de Don Cristobal Monroy, fecundo pero injustamente poco divulgado autor. -Eduardo Mayone Dias Professoe Emeritus Department of Spanish and Portuguese University of California at Los Angeles
Fuenteovejuna
DIVA captivating 17th-century drama of peasants defending their honor against oppression by a feudal lord. Features an excellent English-prose version on the pages facing the original Spanish. /div
The Staying Power of Thetis
In 1991, Laura Slatkin published The Power of Thetis: Allusion and Interpretation in the Iliad, in which she argued that Homer knowingly situated the storyworld of the Iliad against the backdrop of an older world of mythos by which the events in the Iliad are explained and given traction. Slatkin’s focus was on Achilles’ mother, Thetis: an ostensibly marginal and powerless goddess, Thetis nevertheless drives the plot of the Iliad, being allusively credited with the power to uphold or challenge the rule of Zeus. Now, almost thirty years after Slatkin’s publication, this timely volume re-examines depictions and receptions of this ambiguous goddess, in works ranging from archaic Greek poe...
