Includes bibliographical references (pages 486-501) and index.
Contents:
Introduction / Maria M. Delgado and David T. Gies -- The challenges of historiography: the theatre in medieval Spain / Ángel Gómez Moreno -- Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca and Tirso de Molina: Spain's Golden Age drama and its legacy / Jonathan Thacker -- The world as a stage: politics, imperialism and Spain's seventeenth-century theatre / José María Ruano de la Haza -- Playing the palace: space, place and performance in early modern Spain / Margaret R. Greer -- The art of the actor, 1565-1833: from moral suspicion to social institution / Evangelina Rodríguez Cuadros -- Theatrical infrastructures, dramatic production and performance, 1700-1759 / Fernando Doménech Rico -- Popular theatre and the Spanish stage, 1737-1798 / Josep Maria Sala Valldaura -- Theatre of the elites, Neoclassicism and the Enlightenment, 1750-1808 / René Andioc -- Actors and agency in the modern era, 1801-2010 / Josep Lluís Sirera -- Zarzuela: high art, popular culture and music theatre / Rafael Lamas -- Nineteenth-century Spanish theatre: the birth of an industry / José Luis González Subías -- Copyright, buildings, spaces and the nineteenth-century stage / Lisa Surwillo -- Modernism and the avant-garde in fin-de-siècle Barcelona and Madrid / David George and Jesús Rubio Jiménez -- Continuity and innovation in Spanish theatre, 1900-1936 / Dru Dougherty and Andrew Anderson -- Theatrical activities during the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 / Jim McCarthy -- Theatre, colonialism, exile and the Americas / Helena Buffery -- Theatre under Franco, (1939-1975): censorship, playwriting and performance / John London -- Flamenco: performing the local / performing the state / Lourdes Orozco -- Nationalism, identity and theatre: theatre across the Spanish state in the democratic era, 1975-2010 / Sharon Feldman and Anxo Abuín González -- Directors and the Spanish stage, 1823-2010 / Maria M. Delgado -- This evolution is still ongoing / interview with Nuria Espert -- Theatre as a process of discovery / interview with Lluís Pasqual -- Theatre is the art of the future / interview with Juan Mayorga.
Summary:
"Leading theatre historians and practitioners map a theatrical history that moves from the religious tropes of Medieval Iberia to the postmodern practices of twenty-first-century Spain. Considering work across the different languages of Spain, from vernacular Latin to Catalan, Galician and Basque, this history engages with the work of actors and directors, designers and publishers, agents and impresarios, and architects and ensembles, in indicating the ways in which theatre has both commented on and intervened in the major debates and issues of the day. Chapters consider paratheatrical activities and popular performance, such as the comedia de magia and flamenco, alongside the works of Spain's major dramatists, from Lope de Vega to Federico García Lorca. Featuring revealing interviews with actress Nuria Espert, director Lluís Pasqual and playwright Juan Mayorga, it positions Spanish theatre within a paradigm that recognizes its links and intersections with wider European and Latin American practices"-- Provided by publisher.
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