{"product_id":"el-muerto-disimulado-presumed-dead-angela-de-azevedo-9781786940728","title":"El muerto disimulado \/ Presumed Dead: Ângela de","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender awarded this work the Prize for the Best Translated Edition of a Work on Women and Gender, 2018.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eValerie Hegstrom and Catherine Larson have created an annotated new edition and first-ever translation of  ngela de Azevedo’s vibrant comedy, \u003ci\u003eEl muerto disimulado \/ Presumed Dead\u003c\/i\u003e, to promote the recuperation of early modern plays authored by women. The book contains a comprehensive introduction that describes Spanish theater in its Golden Age, what is known of the author’s life and times, contemporary stagings, and an extensive analysis of the text.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlthough the playwright penned her work in Spanish, the Portuguese Azevedo set the action in Lisbon, creating in the process an abundance of multicultural allusions that enrich the text’s baroque quality. The story unfolds as a cross between a jilted-lover scenario and a whodunit murder mystery. A woman laments her departed lover, a sister cross-dresses to avenge her murdered brother, a man duels with his cousin over lost honor, and before long, the dead man turns up as a ghost, or a bar maid, or a female peddler. Questions about identity abound in the witty \u003ci\u003eEl muerto disimulado \/ Presumed Dead\u003c\/i\u003e. The transnational nature of this clever comedy complicates meanings, often producing bilingual wordplay that underscores the self-conscious, gender-bending, ludic character of the play and of theater in general. Azevedo highlights her ability to cross linguistic and geographic borders in the early modern period, as she simultaneously works within and offers a challenge to the dominant tradition of the Spanish \u003ci\u003eComedia\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This side-by-side Spanish–English edition of the play will allow scholars, students, and actors to approach Azevedo’s work afresh. For many, it will be the first opportunity to read this relatively unknown author’s work. This accessible, accomplished edition of \u003ci\u003eEl muerto disimulado \/ Presumed Dead \u003c\/i\u003eshould help Azevedo’s play become better known both on page and on stage. Hegstrom and Larson are to be congratulated for making this significant contribution both to the scholarship on early modern women and to the corpus of highly skilled translations of early modern women’s work.'\u003cbr\u003e Lisa Vollendorf, \u003ci\u003eBulletin of the Comediantes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘There is a very small subset of translators who are able to produce compelling verse translations of comedias and an even smaller one whose verse translations are manageable for university theater students. This edition offers a highly readable — and I believe stage-worthy — prose translation that transmits the content accurately and also captures much of the early modern delight with dazzling verbal gymnastics.’ \u003cbr\u003e Barbara Simerka, Queens College, City University of New York, \u003cem\u003e Early Modern Women Journal \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Hegstrom and Larson have done a superb job bringing Azevedo’s play to life, and scholars, students, directors, actors and lovers of Golden Age \u003cem\u003e comedia \u003c\/em\u003e can now enjoy a play and playwright, neither of which will ever again fall into oblivion.’ \u003cbr\u003e Nieves Romero-Díaz, Mount Holyoke College,\u003cem\u003e Seventeenth-Century News \u003c\/em\u003e","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50470016188759,"sku":"9781786940728","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781786940728.jpg?v=1744897107","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/el-muerto-disimulado-presumed-dead-angela-de-azevedo-9781786940728","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}