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This book is a Spanish/English edition of Lope de Vega's La
discreta enamorada. The core of the book consists of two texts: a
critical edition of Lope's play in Spanish and Donald R. Larson's
English translation/adaptation of that work. Common to the two
texts are explanatory notes focusing on historical, cultural, and
literary references. The Spanish text is further clarified by
elucidations of difficult words or passages. The texts are preceded
by a substantial introduction (discussing conventions of comedy,
the comedia de capa y espada and its variation known as the comedia
urbana, the political, social, and economic contexts of early
17th-century Madrid) and are followed by a critical apparatus that
lists important variants that may be found in previous editions of
Lope's play.
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. This
volume brings together twenty-six essays from the world's leading
scholars and practitioners of Spanish Golden Age theatre. Examining
the startlingly wide variety of ways that Spanish comedias have
been adapted, re-envisioned, and reinvented, the book makes the
case that adaptation is a crucial lens for understanding the
performance history of the genre. The essays cover a wide range of
topics, from the early stage history of the comedia through
numerous modern and contemporary case studies, as well as the
transformation of the comedia into other dramatic genres, such as
films, musicals, puppetry, and opera. The essays themselves are
brief and accessible to non-specialists. This book will appeal not
only to Golden Age scholars and students but also to theater
practitioners, as well as to anyone interested in the theory and
practice of adaptation. Harley Erdman is Professor of Theaterat the
University of Massachusetts, Amherst Susan Paun de Garcia is
Professor of Spanish at Denison University. Contributors: Sergio
Adillo Rufo, Karen Berman, Robert E. Bayliss, Laurence Boswell,
Bruce R.Burningham, Amaya Curieses Irarte, Rick Davis, Harley
Erdman, Susan L. Fischer, Charles Victor Ganelin, Francisco Garcia
Vicente, Alejandro Gonzalez Puche, Valerie Hegstrom, Kathleen
Jeffs, David Johnston, Gina Kaufmann, Catherine Larson, Donald R.
Larson, Barbara Mujica, Susan Paun de Garcia, Felipe B. Pedraza
Jimenez, Veronika Ryjik, Jonathan Thacker, Laura L. Vidler, Duncan
Wheeler, Amy Williamsen, Jason Yancey
How should a seventeenth-centry Spanish verse play be presented to
a contemporary English-speaking audience? For many reasons, but
most usually the lack of playable modern translations, the plays of
the seventeenth-century Spanish Comedia have appeared infrequently
on the stages of the English-speaking world. Once such translations
began to appear in the final decades of the twentieth century,
productions followed and audiences were once again given the
opportunity of discovering the enormous riches of this theatre. The
bringing of Spanish seventeenth-century verse plays to the
contemporary English-speaking stage involves a number of
fundamental questions. Are verse translations preferable to prose,
and if so, what kind of verse? To what degree should translations
aim to be "faithful"? Which kinds of plays "work", and which do
not? Which values and customs of the past present no difficulties
for contemporary audiences, and which need to be decoded in
performance? Which kinds of staging are suitable, and which are
not? To what degree, if any, should one aim for "authenticity" in
staging? And so on. In this volume, a distinguished group of
translators, directors, and scholars explores these and related
questions in illuminating and thought-provoking essays. EDITORS:
Susan Paun de Garcia and Donald Larson are Associate Professors of
Spanish at the Universities of Denison and Ohio State respectively.
OTHER CONTRIBUTORS: Isaac Benabu, Catherine Boyle, Victor Dixon,
Susan Fischer, Michael Halberstam, David Johnston, Catherine
Larson, A. Robert Lauer, Dakin Matthews, Anne McNaughton, Barbara
Mujica, James Parr, Dawn Smith, Jonathan Thacker, Sharon Voros
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