A Companion to Lope de Vega

Herausgeber: Samson, Alexander W; Thacker, Jonathan W

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Produktbeschreibung

A Companion to Lope de Vega brings together essays by leading international scholars on the life and works of Lope de Vega Carpio, the 'fénix de los ingenios', or, as his rival Miguel de Cervantes dubbed him, 'monstruo de la naturaleza'. Spain's foremost Golden Age playwright excelled in all literary genres, including prose and poetry, also covered here. The contributors evaluate current critical debates and issues in Lope de Vega studies, as well as providing new readings of key texts. It has been the aim of the editors to do justice to the variety, profusion and originality of Lope's work, placing the writer and his output firmly in their historical context as well asassessing his reputation in literary history. The wide variety of critical perspectives found in the volume reflects the liveliness of the debate surrounding this enduringly popular figure whose drama is enjoying a renaissance intheatres around the globe. Alexander Samson lectures in Golden Age literature at University College London. Jonathan Thacker is Fellow in Spanish at Merton College, Oxford. Other Contributors: Elaine Canning, Geraldine Coates, Frederick A de Armas, Victor Dixon, Geraint Evans, Tyler Fisher, Edward H. Friedman, Alejandro Garcia Reidy, David Johnston, Arantza Mayo, David McGrath, Barbara Mujica, Ali Rizavi José Maria Ruano de la Haza,Isabel Torres, Xavier Tubau, Duncan Wheeler.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell and Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 642g
• ISBN-13: 9781855663251
• ISBN-10: 1855663252
• Artikelnr.: 49675222

Autorenporträt

Alexander Samson, Jonathan Thacker

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Lope's Life and Work Lope's Knowledge
Victor Dixon Lope de Vega and Theatre in Madrid
José María Ruano de la Haza From Stage to Page: Editorial History and Literary Promotion in Lope de Vega's Partes de Comedias
Alejandro Garcia Reidy Imagining Lope's Lyric Poetry in the 'Soneto primero' of the Rimas
Tyler Fisher 'Quien en virtud emplea su ingenio...': Lope de Vega's Religious Poetry
Arantza Mayo Outside In: The Subject[s] at Play in Las rimas humanas y divinas de Tomé de Burguillos
Isabel Torres The Arte nuevo de hacer comedias: Lope's dramatic statement
Jonathan W. Thacker Three Canonical Plays
Alexander Samson Lope de Vega, the Chronicle
Legend Plays and Collective Memory
Geraldine Hazbun Sacred Souls and Sinners: Abstinence and Adaptation in Lope's Religious Drama
Elaine Canning Lope, the Comedian
Jonathan W. Thacker Lope de Vega's Speaking Pictures: Tantalizing Titians and Forbidden Michelangelos in La quinta de Florencia
Frederick A de Armas Performing Sanctity: Lope's Use of Teresian Iconography in Santa Teresa de Jesús
Barbara Mujica Masculinities and Honour in Los comendadores de Córdoba
Geraint Evans El castigo sin venganza and the Ironies of Rhetoric
Edward H Friedman Life's Pilgrim: El peregrino en su patria
Alexander Samson Novelas a Marcia Leonarda
Ali Rizavi La Dorotea: a Tragicomedy in Prose
Xavier Tubau Lope as Icon
David McGrath A Modern Day Fénix: Lope de Vega's Cinematic Revivals
Duncan Wheeler Lope in Translation: Opening the Closed Book
David Johnston Translations of Titles Guide to Further Reading Bibliography