![]() Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore There will be opportunities to pursue performance, adaptation, and translation.Ĭourse Format: Discussion Grading Mode: Gradedįulfills a Major Requirement for: ( COL)( HISP)( RMST)( THEA) However, an interest in engaging these wonderful plays closely, imaginatively, and historically is essential. Organized around the careful reading of five key play-texts in Spanish, together with historical, critical, and theoretical readings, this course assumes no familiarity with the texts, with Spanish history, or with literary analysis. We pay particular attention to the shaping influence of women on the professional stage (in contrast to England) and to performance spaces and traditions. We will look at the social conditions that enabled the Spanish stage to serve as a kind of civic forum, where conflicts between freedom and authority or desire and conformism could be acted out and the fears, hopes, dangers, and pleasures generated by conquest, urbanization, trade, shifting gender roles, social mobility, religious reform, regulation of matrimony and violence, and clashing intellectual and political ideals could be aired. We will examine five of the greatest of these plays by Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca, and Tirso de Molina in a variety of genres and modes (history, epic, romantic comedy, tragedy, Islamic borderland, parody, siege play, philosophical and theological drama), with their deft character portraits (the original Don Juan by Tirso Calderón's "Spanish Hamlet" Segismundo Lope's spitfire diva Diana, the Countess of Belflor and Cervantes's border-crossing Catalina, the Ottoman sultan's queen) and their virtuoso dialogue, inventive plots, and dazzling metrical variety. Vital, surprising, and ingenious, they exposed the creative tension between art and profit on a new scale, a tension that remains alive for us. And the plays correspondingly mixed high and low characters, language, genres, and sources, with results regularly attacked by moralists. This profit-driven popular entertainment of its day appealed to the learned and illiterate, to women and men, and to rich and poor alike. Summer Session Winter Session Home Archive SearchĬlassic Spanish Plays: Love, Violence, and (Poetic) Justice on the Early Modern Stage SPAN 231įrom 1580 to 1680, Spanish playwrights created one of the great dramatic repertories of world literature, as inventive, varied, and influential as the classical Greek and Elizabethan-Jacobean English traditions. Classic Spanish Plays: Love, Violence, and (Poetic) Justice on the Early Modern Stage SPAN 231 WesMaps - Wesleyan University Catalog 2017-2018 ![]()
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