Auteur: Ted L. L. Bergman

Parody, satire and a number of other comic techniques are shown to play an unsuspected but integral part in Calderon’s work. Contrary to popular belief, Pedro Calderón de la Barca had a sense of humo …

Early Modern Spanish theatre is viewed by many scholars as entertaining propaganda that channelled the emotions and beliefs of the masses into mechanisms for social control. This book questions such …

A close examination of the representation of criminals in the understudied theatrical genres of the jácara and comedias de valentones. Early Modern Spanish theatre is viewed by many scholars as enter …