{"product_id":"a-companion-to-early-modern-hispanic-theater-9789004234567","title":"A Companion to Early Modern Hispanic Theater","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA panoramic, state-of-the-art handbook destined to chart a course for future work in the field of early modern Hispanic theater studies. It begins in the closet with an essay on Celestina as closet drama and moves out into the court to explore intersections with courtly love. An essay on the comedia and the classics demonstrates this genre’s firm grounding in the classical tradition, despite Lope de Vega’s famous protestations to the contrary. Distinct but related genres such as the autos sacramentales and the entremeses also make an appearance. The traditional themes of honor and wife-murder share the stage with less familiar topics like the incorporation of animals into performance. This volume covers the urban space of the city in Spain and Portugal as well as uncharted territories in the New World and Japan. Essays on emblems and the picaresque round out this anthology, along with studies of theatrical representations of early modern innovations in science and technology. The book concludes with two different psychoanalytical approaches, focused on melancholy and Lacanian tragedy, respectively. This collection incorporates the work of younger scholars along with established names in the field to synthesize the most exciting recent work on the comedia and related forms of early modern Hispanic theatrical production.  Contributors include: Ignacio Arellano, Frederick de Armas, Henry Sullivan, Edward Friedman,  A. Robert Lauer, Manuel Delgado, Adrienne Martín, Enrique García Santo Tomás, Matthew Stroud, Teresa Scott Soufas, Enrique Fernández, María Mercedes Carrión, Robert Bayliss, Ted Bergman, Cory Reed,  Maryrica Lottman, Christina Lee, and Enrique Duarte.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Contributors  List of Figures  Introduction   PART ONE — ORIGINS  Celestina as Closet Drama   Enrique Fernandez Rivera Courtly Love and the Comedia  Robert Bayliss The Comedia and the Classics  Frederick A. de Armas Spanish Sacramental Plays: A Study of Their Evolution  J. Enrique Duarte  PART TWO — THEMES  Honor\/Honra Revisited   A. Robert Lauer The Wife-Murder Plays   Matthew D. Stroud ’Til Play Do Us Part: Marriage, Law, and the Comedia   Maria M. Carrion Onstage\/Backstage: Animals in the Golden Age Comedia   Adrienne L. Martin Entremeses and Other Forms of Teatro Breve   Ted L. L. Bergman  PART THREE — PLACES  On Speed and Restlessness: Calderon’s Urban Kaleidoscope   Enrique Garcia Santo-Tomas The New World in Lope de Vega’s Columbus and St. Christopher: El nuevo mundo descubierto por Cristobal Colon   Maryrica Ortiz Lottman The Quest for Spiritual Transcendence in the Theater of Gil Vicente   Manuel Delgado Morales Lope de Vega and The Martyrs of Japan   Christina H. Lee  PART FOUR — INTERSECTIONS  Picaresque Sensibility and the Comedia   Edward H. Friedman Emblems at the Golden Age Theater   Ignacio Arellano Science, Instrumentality, and Chaotics in Early Modern Spanish Drama   Cory A. Reed Melancholy, the Comedia, and Early Modern Psychology   Teresa Scott Soufas Jacques Lacan and Tragic Drama in the Golden Age of Spain   Henry W. Sullivan  Chapter Summaries  Select Bibliography  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210632782167,"sku":"9789004234567","price":176.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-companion-to-early-modern-hispanic-theater-9789004234567","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}