A History of Theatre in Spain

Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 4/5/2012
EAN 9780521117692, ISBN10: 0521117690

Hardcover, 558 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 3 cm
Language: Spanish

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.

Introduction Maria M. Delgado and David T. Gies
1. The theatre in medieval Spain
the challenges of historiography Ángel Gómez Moreno
2. Playing the palace
space, place and performance in early modern Spain Margaret R. Greer
3. The world as a stage
politics, imperialism and Spain's seventeenth-century theatre José María Ruano de la Haza
4. Lope de Vega, Pedro Calderón de la Barca and Tirso de Molina
Spain's Golden Age drama and its legacy Jonathan Thacker
5. The art of the actor, 1565–1833
from moral suspicion to social institution Evangelina Rodríguez Cuadros
6. Theatrical infrastructures, dramatic production and performance, 1700–59 Fernando Doménech Rico
7. Popular theatre and the Spanish stage, 1737–98 Josep Maria Sala Valldaura
8. Theatre of the elites, Neoclassicism and the Enlightenment, 1750–1808 René Andioc
9. Zarzuela
prejudice and mass culture in Spain Rafael Lamas
10. Nineteenth-century Spanish theatre
the birth of an industry José Luis González Subías
11. Copyright, buildings, spaces and the nineteenth-century stage Lisa Surwillo
12. Modernism and the avant-garde in fin-de-siècle Barcelona and Madrid David George and Jesús Rubio Jiménez
13. Continuity and innovation in Spanish theatre, 1900–36 Dru Dougherty and Andrew Anderson
14. Theatrical activities during the Spanish Civil War, 1936–9 Jim McCarthy
15. Theatre, colonialism, exile and the Americas Helena Buffery
16. Theatre under Franco, 1939–75
censorship, playwriting and performance John London
17. Flamenco
performing the local/performing the state Lourdes Orozco
18. Actors and agency in the modern era, 1801–2010 Josep Lluís Sirera
19. Nationalism, identity and theatre
theatre across the Spanish state in the democratic era, 1975–2010 Sharon Feldman and Anxo Abuín González
20. Directors and the Spanish stage, 1823–2010 Maria M. Delgado
21. This evolution is still ongoing Nuria Espert
22. Theatre as a process of discovery Lluís Pasqual
23. Theatre is the art of the future Juan Mayorga
Select bibliography.

'If the curtain that Cambridge University Press has raised embraces on the stage of this volume the examination of the Hispanic dramatic tradition as much as the continuation of international Hispanism, the project should be received with applause from those of us who become members of the audience as much as participants in the cast of characters.' The Boletín de la Real Academia Española