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Title Shakespeare and the Spanish comedia : translation, interpretation, performance : essays in honor of Susan Fischer / edited by Bárbara Mujica
Published Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 298 p.)
Contents Prologue; Introduction; I: Translation; 1 Performing Translation: The (Dangerous) Mobilities of Cultural Identity; 2 "Eking Out" Performance with the Mind; 3 The Translation of La vida es sueño for a Twenty-First-Century Anglophone Audience; 4 Translating Hamlet for the Spanish Actor; II: Interpretation; 5 The High Anxiety of Influence: Caro, Zayas, Sor Juana, and the New Arts; 6 Versions of the Battle of Cádiz, 1625; 7 Polyphony and Calderón de la Barca's La dama duende; 8 The Portrait of a Pious Widow: Francisco de Ribalta and Lope de Vega's La viuda valenciana
9 Women Tame and Untamed: Two Dutiful Daughters in the Romance de la doncella guerrera and Luis Vélez de Guevara's La serrana de la Vera10 Cultural Capital and Comedy: Talking Heads in Guillén de Castro's Las mocedades del Cid; 11 Shakespeare's Imagination; III: Performance; 12 Constructing Stage Character: The Duke of Ferrara in Lope de Vega's El castigo sin venganza; 13 Facing the Music: Introducing Song into the Comedia; 14 The Autonomy of Henry IV, Part Two; 15 Staging Options in the Early Texts of Hamlet; Selected Publications of Susan L. Fischer; Bibliography; Index
Summary Shakespeare and the Spanish Comedia examines masterpieces of early modern English and Spanish theater with attention to issues of transculturation, translation, interpretation and performance. This collection of essays by highly respected British and American scholars and theater practitioners offers a unique transnational view of two great dramatic traditions in the social contexts in which they were originally created and in which they are presently viewed
Bibliography Includes bibliographic references (p. 271-284) and index
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Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Translations into Spanish -- History and criticism
SUBJECT Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast
Subject Spanish drama -- Classical period, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism
Comparative literature -- English and Spanish
Comparative literature -- Spanish and English
Spanish drama (Comedy) -- History and criticism
DRAMA -- Continental European.
Comparative literature -- English and Spanish
Comparative literature -- Spanish and English
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan
Spanish drama -- Classical period
Spanish drama (Comedy)
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Mujica, Barbara Louise, editor
LC no. 2021697294
ISBN 9781611485189
1611485185