Cómo encender un dragón apagado

This volume presents ten articles about the Hispanic theatre. It presents over more than 150 pages a range of studies that go from the end of the Middle Ages to the present day of the liturgical dramatization to the process of transforming a collection of poems into a play, from Argentina and Mexico to the Canary Islands and Majorca. It pays attention to certain works ("Davallament de la Creu", the comedies El villano en su rincón, La Varona castellana y El príncipe despeñado by Lope de Vega, the prologues by Antonio de Solís, the Ifigenia by Jovellanos, Nuevo género by Felipe...

Propuestas para (re)construir una nación explores how Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851–1921) imagines and engenders the Spanish nation in her theatrical production staged and/or published between 1898 and 1909. In the aftermath of Spain’s colonial losses, when Spain’s male authors, in a growing mood of collective introspection, directed their attention to the homeland, Pardo Bazán generated a series of theatrical proposals to revitalize the nation. In her plays, she manifests her ideas about Spain’s fin de siècle crisis, reflects on Spain’s place in the international arena (emphasizing...

En el verano de 1963 Pier Paolo Pasolini recorre Italia con un micrófono en la mano. En las plazas de los pueblos, en las playas del norte y del sur, en las discotecas y en los trenes entrevista a la gente y le pregunta sobre el sexo: qué papel tiene en su vida, si para los hombres es igual que para las mujeres, si el matrimonio resuelve o satisface la sexualidad de cada uno. En sus preguntas toca los temas de la virginidad, el machismo, la diversidad, el matrimonio y la prostitución. Lo que nace de ese viaje es un documental, Comizi d’amore, que reflexiona sobre los límites y los...

Generic experimentation is at the heart of the major poetic innovations of the Spanish Golden Age. The passage from the sixteenth to the seventeenth century marked a dynamic moment of transition in the evolution of aesthetic forms. This volume of essays, which unites contributions from a cross-section of specialists in the field of Hispanic poetry, presents a comprehensive exploration of the unprecedented flowering of Hispanic culture associated with this period. It not only places aesthetic questions in their broader European context, but looks beyond the confines of Europe to interrogate...