Approaches to Teaching Early Modern Spanish Drama
Editor(s): Laura R. Bass, Margaret R. Greer
Pages: xiii & 281 pp.
Published: 2006
ISBN: 9780873529952 (paperback)
ISBN: 9780873529945 (hardcover)
"These master teachers share years of experience in bringing important works to life for students who can then make connections to our modern dilemmas and values. This rich volume is a valuable addition to the Approaches to Teaching series and is recommended reading for instructors and students alike."
Midwest Modern Language Association
"This volume is a mine of information, insight, and inspiration for teachers of Golden Age theatre throughout the English-speaking world."
Bulletin of Spanish Studies
At the start of the twenty-first century, performances of early modern Spanish drama experienced resurgent popularity--not only in Spain but also on stages across Europe, Latin America, and the United States. In the academy the comedia, which includes comic, tragicomic, and tragic works, is widely taught in a range of contexts to a variety of students, in Spanish and in translation. Given the steady increase of Spanish as the language of choice in foreign language departments, these courses will continue to flourish. This volume offers guidance to teachers in helping students engage with and understand these late-sixteenth- and early-seventeenth-century works.
Part 1, "Materials," evaluates editions and anthologies in English and Spanish; identifies important critical works and historical studies; and surveys illustrated books, films, and Internet resources. In part 2, "Approaches," experienced teachers discuss the way the plays challenged the interests of the monarchial state; examine the obsession with honor shared by Spanish men and women alike; explain the key role costume played in providing both pleasure and meaning; and explore how late-twentieth-century films reflect elements of these early Spanish plays. Other approaches center on five women playwrights; delve into the complex theological and philosophical underpinnings of the plays; pair the plays with Shakespearean drama; show how Spanish plays influenced French dramatists; and trace the appeal of the Don Juan figure.
Table of Contents
Preface to the Series
Preface to the Volume
Laura R. Bass and Margaret R. Greer
Acknowledgments
PART 1: MATERIALS
Laura R. Bass and Margaret R. Greer
- Editions of Comedias
- Anthologies in Spanish
- Individual Editions and Series in Spanish
- Bilingual Editions and Translations
- The Instructor's Library
- Background Studies
- Critical and Scholarly Studies
- Journals and Series
- Aids to Teaching
- Illustrated Books
- Films
- Internet Resources
PART 2: APPROACHES
Introduction
Laura R. Bass and Margaret R. Greer
The Past in the Present: Historical Frameworks and Visual Contexts
Communicating the Past
Melveena McKendrick
Between Ideals and Pragmatism: Honor in Early Modern Spain.
Renato Barahona
A Woman Hunted, A City Beseiged: Spanish Emblems and Italian Art in Fuenteovejuna
Frederick A. de Armas
Early Modern Geographies: Teaching Space in Tirso de Molina's Urban Plays
Enrique García Santo-Tomás
Costume and the Comedia: Dressing Up El vergonzoso en palacio in the Classroom
Laura R. Bass
Teaching Golden Age Theater through Filmic Adaptations
Carmen García de la Rasilla
Language, Theory, and (Teaching) Philosophy
How to Do Things with Polimetría
Mary Malcolm Gaylord
The Comedia and the Theoretical Imperative
Edward H. Friedman
Unanswering the Question: A Course on Spanish Golden Age Plays by Women
Teresa S. Soufas
Toward an Understanding of Moral Philosophy and the Theme of Desengaño in Calderón
Manuel Delgado
Theater History, Practice, and Comparative Contexts
Placing the Comedia in Performative Context
Bruce R. Burningham
On Teaching Non-Comedia Festive Drama of Early Modern Spain
Vincent Martin
Reinventing Texts in a New (Historical) Context: Spanish Comedia and Shakespeare
Susan L. Fischer
Comedia and Comédie
Leah Middlebrook
Don Juan in Three Acts: Seduction across Time and Space
James Mandrell
Cross-Cultural Approaches
Lope de Vega and the Matter of America: Approaching the Comedia from a Transatlantic Perspective
José R. Cartagena-Calderón
An Approach to Teaching Drama Written in Colonial Spanish America
Frederick Luciani
Staging Captivity: Cervantes's Barbary Plays
María Antonia Garcés
Teaching Race and the Performances of Whiteness in El valiente negro en Flandes, by Andrés de Claramente
John Beusterien
Teaching the Comedia to Nonmajors: Golden Age Drama in a Cultural Studies Context
Cory A. Reed
Embodied Pedagogies
Trials: Teaching the Spanish Baroque Comedia in the Twenty-First Century
A. Robert Lauer
Mentoring Environments and Golden Age Theater Production
Dale J. Pratt and Valerie Hegstrom
New Technologies
The Digital Comedia: Teaching Golden Age Theater with New and Emerging Technologies
Diane E. Sieber
The Closest Reading: Creating Annotated Online Editions
Matthew D. Stroud
Glossary of Key Terms
Notes on Contributors
Survey Participants
Works Cited
Index of Plays
Index of Playwrights
Index of Names
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