Juan del Encina’s Nativity Eclogues: A New English Translation

Juan del Encina has long been recognized as a crucial figure in Iberian drama, yet few of his works have been translated into English. Encina wrote plays, poetry, and music in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, and scholars have traditionally regarded Encina’s writing as a turning point in early Spanish drama, both because of the secular material included in his plays and because Encina supervised the publication of his own works. He is also credited with contributing to the professionalization of Spanish theater by depicting the court of his patrons, the Duke and Duchess of Alba, as a site of theatrical performance. Encina’s innovative dramas interweave courtly, religious, and pastoral drama with metafictional elements. Atiya presents translations of two plays included in Encina’s 1496 Cancionero, a printed compilation of poetic, dramatic, and musical works.

In the Beginning There Were Dragon(cillo)s: Using Shadow Puppetry to Engage Young Audiences

Dragoncillo Puppet Troupe was established in 2018 by Esther Fernández, Jonathan Wade, Jared White, and Jason Yancey. The troupe grew out of a staging of The Fabulous Johnny Frog at the 2018 Association for Hispanic and Classical Theater’s (AHCT) yearly symposium. This work, adapted by Yancey, focuses on the controversial Juan Rana protagonist and was designed as an outreach initiative to bring early modern Spanish theater to schools using shadow puppetry. In 2019, Yancey created a new performance based on two entremeses written by Francisco de Quevedo, Siglo de Oro Drama Festival and their community partners This essay illustrates how the Dragoncillo Puppet Troupe was conceived and developed over the span of two years with the goal of introducing early modern Hispanic literature and culture to diverse audiences across the United States while at the same time reaffirming that played a significant role in the cultural, social, and religious life of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain.

Del dominio de los fundamentos de la comedia de buenas costumbres a la práctica exitosa: Contigo pan y cebolla (1833) de Manuel Eduardo de Gorostiza

Until now, eighteenth-century Spanish theater scholars and critics have considered Manuel Eduardo de Gorostiza (1789-1857) a minor playwright. In the present collaboration we intend to demonstrate that such an assertion does not conform to the truth. Through a contrastive study between El señorito mimado (1787) by Tomás de Iriarte and Contigo pan y cebolla (1833) by Gorostiza, we mean to show that the latter one became a renowned author of comedies of good manners on his own merits and not for being a mere follower of the guidelines of the neoclassical comedy established by Nicolás Fernandez de Moratín and consolidated by Tomás de Iriarte. In essence, the contents and arguments set forth in this article are clear evidence that Gorostiza conceived comedies that achieved a public and critical acclaim and made him worthy of occupying a relevant position both among the enlightened liberals of Hispanic origin as well as among the authors of comedies of good manners.

Navi che portano nell’aldilà: la raffigurazione del bivium in El viaje del alma di Lope de Vega

The bivium of human life, narrated in the myth of Hercules and symbolized by the Pythagorean Y, was a recurring motif in Spanish theater since the second half of the sixteenth century. Lope de Vega already developed it in one of his most remote sacramental plays, Comedia del viaje del hombre. In Viaje del alma, auto sacramental of Lope composed around 1599, on the occasion of the double royal wedding of Philip III with Margaret of Austria and the infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia with the archduke Albert of Austria, and published in El peregrino en su patria, the crossroads is represented through two opposing ships, of which the playwright offers us an accurate description that has its origin in the iconographic tradition in force at the time

Lope’s El Hamete de Toledo

Set in the aftermath of the 1609 expulsion of the Moriscos decreed by King Philip III of Spain (r. 1598–1621), the play El Hamete de Toledo, by Lope de Vega, has found a new relevance on stage and in political debates linked to the current immigration crisis. This article aims to rethink the current victimization of Muslims, as presented in the production of AlmaViva Teatro, a Spanish theater company which used the Early Modern Spanish tragedy to connect to a contemporary audience, thirsty for social justice. To this end, I will focus on the treatment of Hamete, a Moor imprisoned in Spain, and whose body becomes the symbol of the Other, to be conquered. As such, in the course of the play, his body is vilified, dehumanized, chained, and tortured. The culmination of this process coincides with the final act of surrender, the moment of his conversion, but also of the physical dismemberment of his body, a brutal ritualistic sacrifice carried out in the name of eternal salvation.

Las compañías teatrales españolas en internet

In this work, the Internet presence of Spanish theater companies will be analyzed by studying a corpus of own data. The internet concept is very broad. The great advances in this eld have developed many new functions. Although the fundamental and essential purpose of the Internet is communication, the real technological change begins with computerization and the ability to process, manipulate and control vast amounts of data. This change does not lie only in the methodology in communicating, but involves a deep change that aects the life of society in general. Internet is a virtual space where you can live: watch a movie, buy food or clothes, talking with friends, check bank details, play, etc. This profound change in society also comes to literature in general and theater in particular. Within this giant free showcase that is Internet, every author and every theater company seeks its place in order to be visible to the world. In this paper, we review the dierent ways in which the theater appears on the Internet and present a systematic and detailed analysis of the Internet presence of twenty companies of Spanish theater with very dierent idiosyncrasies that reect the current Spanish theater scene.

El monólogo como práctica dramatúrgica feminista en los años ochenta: el ejemplo de Maribel Lázaro (La fosa y La defensa)

The visibility and recognition of Women playwrights in Spanish theater did not occur until the eighties after the conquests of feminist movements. For that reason, women playwrights explore in their works new ways of thinking about subjectivity. The monologue provides them with a way of exploring themselves and with a form of engaged theater. This textual corpus is studied in this article in a global way in order to contextualize feminist dramaturgies and in particular the dramatic proposals of Maribel Lázaro, who in 1986 wrote two monologues La fosa [The pit] and La defensa [The defense]. Therefore, we analyze the terminological problem around the concept of «monologue». Moreover, we reflect on the dramatic structure in which the denunciation, self-recognition and negation of the discourse of the female character coexist in a paradox that opens the path to a consolidation of the feminist theater in Spain.

«Il Sacchi mi mandava tratto tratto de’ fasci di quelle strane, e mostruose opere di quel Teatro…»: Carlo Gozzi e il teatro spagnolo

The contribution proposes a reflection on the greatest author of the 18th Century Italian theater who drew on the dramaturgical heritage of the siglos de oro. The main elements dealt with are: Carlo Gozzi's theoretical reflection on the characteristics of Spanish theater; the fundamental role in the repêchage that the actors of Antonio Sacco's company had in that theater, for which the author provided - according to him - a "voluntary friendly assistance"; finally, the most significant data that emerge, or could emerge, from the first National Edition of the works of Carlo Gozzi (launched in 2011).