Publisher Description

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library as part of the Opening the Future project with COPIM. In this volume, we are particularly interested in approaching theatre and performance as a dynamic and evolving practice of continuous change, regeneration and cultural mobility. Neither the dramatic texts nor their stage versions should be viewed as finished products but as creative processes in the making. Their richness lies in their unfinished and never-ending potential energy and their openness to constant revision, rehearsal, revival, and collective enterprise. This edited collection aims to create a dialogue on the artistic processes implicated in the various ways of working with the play text, the staging practices, the way audiences and critical reception can impact a production, and the many lives of Iberian theatre beyond the page or the stage. That is, its cultural and social legacies.

Author Biography

María Chouza-Calo is Professor of Spanish at Central Michigan University. Esther Fernández is Associate Professor of Iberian Studies at Rice University. Jonathan Thacker is King Alfonso XIII Professor of Spanish Studies at the University of Oxford.

Table of Contents

Introduction
María del Pilar Chouza-Calo, Esther Fernández, Jonathan Thacker

Part I. Playing Upon Gender
Chapter 1: Snares of Safety: Guillén de Castro's La fuerza de la costumbre (1610-1615), The Force of Habit (2019) in Production
Kathleen Jeffs
Chapter 2: Unruly Mujeres: Adapting Women's Rebellious Voices on the Modern Stage
Sarah Grunnah
Chapter 3: Electra (1910): Daring Memories of Galdós's Most Polemic Success
Esther Fernández and Cristina Martínez-Carazo
Chapter 4: The "Pleasure" of Wife-Murder Drama: The Aesthetics of Gender-Based Violence in Palabras encadenadas
Sonia Pérez Villanueva

Part II. Daring Acts
Chapter 5: Theatricality in a "sacred drama, not to be represented": the Spanish 1700s' Oratorio
Rosa Sanz Hermida
Chapter 6: On Action and Discovery and What to Do with Them in Translation and Performance
Catherine Boyle
Chapter 7: Habit, Suggestion, and Imitation in fin-de-siècle Spanish Theatre
Juan Menchero
Chapter 8: Fuegoártico: A Beautiful Defeat. Jeremy James and the Creation of an Ensemble Methodology in Madrid, 2014
Simon Breden
Chapter 9: Adapting Bolaño's 2666 for the Stage: Rigola (2007), Falls (2016), and Gosselin (2016)
Anton Pujol

Part III. Transcultural Negotiations
Chapter 10: Translating Marginalities: Staging Linguistic Diversity in the Comedia
Laura Muñoz
Chapter 11: The Merry Valencian Widow: Negotiating the Russian Lopean Canon in the Late Twentieth Century
Veronika Ryjik
Chapter 12: From Golden Age to Civil War: Stages of Spain in Yugoslavia
Alma Prelec
Chapter 13: From the Warsaw Ghetto to Messianic Time: Polis and Memory in Juan Mayorga's El cartógrafo. Varsovia, 1: 400.000
Juan Caamaño
Chapter 14: Rewriting Race: The Angels in America Scandal and New Representations of Blackness in Contemporary Catalan Drama
Isaias Fanlo
Chapter 15: Testing the Audience's Judgement: Please, Continue (Hamlet) by Roger Bernat and Yan Duyvendak
David Rodríguez-Solás

Biographies

Review

"This book highlights the theater production of the Iberian Peninsula in a very broad spectrum, which is a perspective that is rarely found."
Elena Cueto Asín, Bowdoin College

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"This book highlights the theater production of the Iberian Peninsula in a very broad spectrum, which is a perspective that is rarely found." Elena Cueto As

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