Prismatic Reflections on Spanish Golden Age Theater

Gwyn E. Campbell (PhD, Princeton) is Professor of Spanish at Washington and Lee University. Her co-edited volumes include: Zayas and Her Sisters: An Anthology of Novelas by 17th-century Spanish Women Writers; Zayas and Her Sisters, II: Essays on Novelas by 17th-century Spanish Women Writers; and a critical edition of Leonor de Meneses's El desdeñado más firme.
Amy R. Williamsen (PhD, University of Southern California) is Professor of Spanish at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. In addition to her book Co(s)mic Chaos: Exploring Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda, her co-edited volumes include: Critical Reflections: Essays on Spanish Golden Age Literature in Honor of James A. Parr; Engendering the Early Modern Stage: Women Playwrights in the Spanish Empire; Ingeniosa Invención: Studies in Honor of Professor Geoffrey Stagg; and María de Zayas: The Dynamics of Discourse.

This volume, organized in five major sections, honors the myriad scholarly contributions of Matthew D. Stroud to the field of Early Modern Spanish theater. Building upon Stroud's seminal studies, each section of essays simultaneously claims and wrestles with aspects of the rich legacy generated by his explorations. The essays included in this volume consider the moral, ethical, and legal backdrop of uxoricide, explorations of the meaningful intersections of psychoanalytic theory and the comedia, and engage the topics of women, gender, and identity. They also bridge the gap between dramatist and actors and between page and stage as they consider everything from the physical demands on Early Modern actresses to the twenty-first-century performance possibilities of comedias. Moreover, these essays incorporate studies that transcend temporal, spatial, political, and cultural limits, continuing to push at the edges of traditional scholarship characteristic of Stroud's pioneering research. Both scholars and students will find this cohesive, compelling collection of interest across a wide spectrum of disciplines from theater history to performance studies, from philosophy to queer studies.

This volume, organized in five major sections, honors the myriad scholarly contributions of Matthew D. Stroud to the field of Early Modern Spanish theater. Building upon Stroud's seminal studies, each section of essays simultaneously claims and wrestles with aspects of the rich legacy generated by his explorations.

Contents: David J. Hildner: Wife-Murder Deflected: How Stage Husbands' Prudence and Ingenuity Lead to Differing Outcomes - Susan L. Fischer: «Nada me digas»: Silencing and Silence in Comedia Domestic Relationships - Katrina M. Heil: Mencía as Tragic Hero in Calderón's El médico de su honra - Ezra Engling: We Too Suffer: Calderón's Honor Husbands - William R. Blue: El médico de su honra: A Crisis of Interpretation - Manuel Delgado: Incest, Natural Law and Social Order in El castigo sin venganza - Gwyn E. Campbell: Duelling (Dis)Honour in Mira de Amescua's La adúltera virtuosa - Christopher Weimer: Ovid, Gender, and the Potential for Tragedy in Don Gil de las calzas verdes - Barbara F. Weissberger: The Queen's Dreams: Lope's Representation of Queen Isabel I in El mejor mozo de España and El niño inocente de La Guardia - Barbara Simerka: Mirror Neurons and Mirror Metaphors: Cognitive Theory and Privanza in La adversa fortuna de don Alvaro de Luna - Robert M. Johnston - The Calderonian Aesthetic Experience: Plot, Character, Politics, and Primal Emotions in El alcalde de Zalamea (What Neuroscience and US Presidential Campaigns Might Tell Us about the Spanish Comedia) Catherine Connor-Swietlicki: Gendered Gazing: Zayas and Caro Go Back to the Future of the «Artful Brain and Body» - Edward H. Friedman:
Of Love and Labyrinths: Feminism and the Comedia - Baltasar Fra-Molinero: Woman, Learning, and Fear: Racial Mixing in Diego Ximénez de Enciso's Juan Latino - Kathleen Regan : Antona García: A Mujer Varonil for the 21st Century - Susan Paun de García: «Más valéis vos, Antona»: Worthy Wives in Lope, Tirso, and Cañizares - Sharon D. Voros: Tried and True: Leonor de la Cueva y Silva's Tirso Connection - Barbara Mujica: Actresses as Athletes and Acrobats - Amy R. Williamsen: Stages of Passing: Identity and Performance in the Comedia - Peter E. Thompson: The Spanish Golden Age Entremés in English: Translating the Juan Rana Phenomenon - Maryrica Ortiz Lottman: Three Productions of El condenado por desconfiado: The Devil's Polymorphism in Our Time - Catherine Larson: Adapting the Spanish Classics for 21st-Century Performance in English: Models for Analysis - Henry W. Sullivan: The Contours of Self-Representation: Why Call Himself Tirso de Molina? - Isaac Benabu: Inquisitorial Pressures: Honour as Metaphor on the Boards - Ronald E. Surtz: Staging the Fall in 16th-Century Spain: The Aucto del peccado de Adán - Kerry Wilks: Baltasar Funes y Villalpando's El golfo de las sirenas: An Homage to Calderón? - Thomas A. O'Connor: The Transformation of a Baroque Zarzuela into an 18th-Century Opera: The Case of Salazar y Torres's Los juegos olímpicos - Donald R. Larson: Two Visions of Brotherhood: Calderón and Richard Strauss.