Prismatic Reflections on Spanish Golden Age Theater: Essays in Honor of Matthew D. Stroud (Hardcover)

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: Mencia as Tragic Hero in Calderon’s El medico de su honra ? Ezra Engling: We Too Suffer: Calderon’s Honor Husbands ? William R. Blue: El medico 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 adultera 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 Espana and El nino 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 Ximenez de Enciso’s Juan Latino ? Kathleen Regan : Antona Garcia: A Mujer Varonil for the 21st Century ? Susan Paun de Garcia: ≪Mas valeis vos, Antona≫: Worthy Wives in Lope, Tirso, and Canizares ? 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 Entremes 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 Adan ? Kerry Wilks: Baltasar Funes y Villalpando’s El golfo de las sirenas: An Homage to Calderon? ? Thomas A. O’Connor: The Transformation of a Baroque Zarzuela into an 18th-Century Opera: The Case of Salazar y Torres’s Los juegos olimpicos ? Donald R. Larson: Two Visions of Brotherhood: Calderon and Richard Strauss.