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The Image of Celestina
La Celestina, a Spanish literary masterpiece second only in importance to Don Quixote in Spanish literature, has been shaped by the inclusion of images from its very first edition in 1499. The subsequent five centuries were punctuated by many illustrated editions; imaginary portraits of the eponymous procuress Celestina by painters such as Murillo, Goya, and Picasso; and, more recently, screen and stage adaptations. Celestina became the prototype from which later representations of procuresses and bawds derived. The Image of Celestina sheds light on the visual culture that developed around La Celestina, including paintings, illustrations, and advertisements. Enrique Fernández examines La Celestina as a mixed-media text, incorporating methods from disciplines such as art history and women’s and cinema studies, and considers a variety of images including promotional posters, lobby pictures, and playbills of theatrical and cinematic adaptations of the book. Using a visual studies approach, The Image of Celestina ultimately illuminates the culture of Celestina, a mythical figure, who surpasses the literary text in which she originated.
Manuscripts and Performances in Religions, Arts, and Sciences
Throughout history, manuscripts have been made and used for religious, artistic, and scientific performances, and this practice continues in most cultures today. By focusing on the role manuscripts have in different kinds of performances, this volume contributes to the evolving field of investigating written artefacts and their functions. The collected essays regard manuscripts as points of intersection where textual, material, and performative aspects converge. The contributors analyse manuscripts in their forms and functions as well as their positioning in the performances for which they were made. These aspects unfold across the volume's three sections, examining how manuscripts are (1) used backstage, for preparing and giving instructions for performances; (2) taken onstage, contributing to the enactment of performances; and (3) performers in their own right, producing an effect on the audience. The diversified, interdisciplinary, and innovative methodologies of the included papers carry great potential to expand the traditional approaches of manuscript studies and find application outside the contributors' respective fields.
Playgrounds
This book compares the theatrical cultures of early modern England and Spain and explores the causes and consequences not just of the remarkable similarities but also of the visible differences between them. An exercise in multi-focal theatre history research, it deploys a wide range of perspectives and evidence with which to recreate the theatrical landscapes of these two countries and thus better understand how the specific conditions of performance actively contributed to the development of each country’s dramatic literature. This monograph develops an innovative comparative framework within which to explore the numerous similarities, as well as the notable differences, between early mo...
Renaissance Drama 40
Rather than assemble a retrospective, the editors of Renaissance Drama use the release of their fortieth volume to survey the present and to attempt a view into the future. Scholars working on different kinds of Renaissance drama contributed brief essays addressing the state of their field, "field" being convenient shorthand for the practical but productive lack of a firm definition under which they and their colleagues study, do research, and write.
Drawing the Curtain
Miguel de Cervantes’s experimentation with theatricality is frequently tied to the notion of revelation and disclosure of hidden truths. Drawing the Curtain showcases the elements of theatricality that characterize Cervantes’s prose and analyses the ways in which he uses theatricality in his own literary production. Bringing together the works of well-known scholars, who draw from a variety of disciplines and theoretical approaches, this collection demonstrates how Cervantes exploits revelation and disclosure to create dynamic dramatic moments that surprise and engage observers and readers. Hewing closely to Peter Brook’s notion of the bare or empty stage, Esther Fernández and Adrienne L. Martín argue that Cervantes’s omnipresent concern with theatricality manifests not only in his drama but also in the myriad metatheatrical instances dispersed throughout his prose works. In doing so, Drawing the Curtain sheds light on the ways in which Cervantes forces his readers to engage with themes that are central to his life and works, including love, freedom, truth, confinement, and otherness.
Artifice and Invention in the Spanish Golden Age
The corpus of literary works shaped by the Renaissance and the Baroque that appeared in Spain during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries had a transforming effect on writing throughout Europe and left a rich legacy that scholars continue to explore. For four decades after the Spanish Civil War the study of this literature flourished in Great Britain and Ireland, where many of the leading scholars in the field were based. Though this particular 'Golden Age' was followed by a decline for many years, there have recently been signs of a significant revival. The present book seeks to showcase the latest research of established and younger colleagues from Great Britain and Ireland on the Spani...
Follia, follie
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La edición del diálogo teatral (siglos XVI-XVII)
El volumen reúne las aportaciones que se presentaron en el XIV Taller Internacional de Estudios Textuales (Perugia 2018) y se centran en aspectos de la transmisión de los textos teatrales del Siglo de Oro y su reflejo en la praxis ecdótica actual: la relación entre el autógrafos y las manuscritos para las compañías, el usus scribendi de los copistas profesionales, las variantes de la tradición impresa, el estudio de la métrica para fijar el texto y establecer autorías, la comparación con la praxis editorial anglosajona y las adaptaciones para los guiones teatrales actuales son temas que se abordan por medio de estudios de casos que iluminan facetas inesperadas de la labor del crítico textual.
Los Siete sabios de Roma en España
El Sendebar es una vieja colección de cuentos que hunde sus raíces en Oriente y que ha ido sobreviviendo gracias a su capacidad de permanente actualización y transformación. Salvar la vida gracias al arte de contar es, en esencia, su hilo conductor. La Historia de los siete sabios de Roma, nombre que adopta la versión española, pertenece a la denominada rama occidental, en la que el ambiente orientalizante del modelo se va trasladando a una ficticia corte imperial romana. Su larga vida editorial se inició en el taller zaragozano de los hermanos Hurus en las últimas décadas del siglo XV y prosiguió hasta el siglo XX, en un continuo camino en la que se vio sometida a numerosas transformaciones materiales y textuales hasta confluir en la literatura popular de pliegos de cordel.
