The first comprehensive study of Tirso de Molina and his work in English
Tirso de Molina (c.1583-c.1648) may not have written
El Burlador de Sevilla, but the works of this prolific author, one of the three pillars of Golden Age Spanish theatre, are notable for their erudition, complex characters, and wit. Informed by a multidisciplinary critical perspective, this volume sets Tirso’s plays and prose in their social, historical, literary, and cultural contexts. Contributors from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Spain offer a state of the art in current scholarship, considering such topics as gender, identity, spatiality, material culture, and creative performativity, among others. The first volume in English to provide a richly detailed overview of Tirso’s life and work,
Tirso de Molina: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Twenty-First Century grounds the reader in canonical theories while suggesting new approaches, attuned to contemporary interests, to his legacy.
İçerik tablosu
INTRODUCTION: Reassessing Tirso for a Twenty-First-Century Audience – Esther Fernández
PART I. A WORLDLY FRIAR
1. Aligning Contradictions: Tirso de Molina’s Life and Works – Esther Fernández
2. A Text with No Name? The Rise and Fall of Tirso’s Attribution of
El burlador de Sevilla -Alejandro García-Reidy
3. Prose Fiction and Authorial Self-Fashioning:
Los cigarrales de Toledo and
Deleitar aprovechando – Christopher B. Weimer
4. The Religious Theater of Fray Gabriel Téllez – Alejandra Juno Rodríguez Villar
PART II. ANTINORMATIVE IDENTITIES
5. Melancholy Subjects: Pathological Love in the Plays of Tirso de Molina – Emmy Herland
6. ‘Mozo soy y mozo fuiste’: Early Modern Conceptions of Age and Masculinity in
El burlador de Sevilla – José R. Cartagena-Calderón
7. All about the Mother in
Lessons to the Wise – Judith Caballero
8. To Be and Not to Be: Iterations of Disguise in the Theater of Tirso de Molina – Robert L. Turner III
9. Dressing the Part: Costuming and Material Culture in Tirso de Molina
Emily C. Tobey
PART III. SOUNDSCAPES AND LANDSCAPES
10. Tirso de Molina: A Musical Meeting of the Minds – Ivy Howell Walters
11. The Figurative Geography of Natural Landscapes in Tirso de Molina – Harrison Meadows
12. Tirso de Molina, Encounters with the New World – Gladys Robalino
13. Tirso Goes Underground – Antonio Guijarro-Donadiós
14. The Impossible Lockdown: Tirso de Molina’s Lessons in Domesticity – Noelia S. Cirnigliaro
PART IV. UNCONVENTIONAL AFTERLIVES
15. Staging Tirso de Molina in Spain and England (1986- ): Ingenuity or Aberration? – Susan L. Fischer
16. Tirso de Molina in English: Translation for Performance – Kathleen Jeffs
17. Tirso de Molina on Stage: Comedy, Costumes, Chameleons – Harley Erdman
18 . Performing Gender on the English-Language Stage: Tirso’s Queer Characters – Sarah Grunnah
19. Dismantling Myths and Repositioning the Other: Tirso de Molina for the 21st Century Classroom – Erin A. Cowling and Glenda Y. Nieto-Cuebas
20. Tirso de Molina’s Critical Panorama (2010-2021) – Ignacio Arellano Ayuso
Yazar hakkında
NOELIA CIRNIGLIARO Assistant Professor of Spanish, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA
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