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Looking at the "Comedia" in the Year of the Quincentennial
Looking at the Comedia in the Year of the Quincentennial Author:Barbara Mujica This work, drawn from a symposium held at the University of Texas, El Paso, in March, 1992, brings together scholars from all over North America, as well as other parts of the world, to study diverse aspects of the "comedia" from an intellectual, academic perspective. Seven different aspects of the "comedia" are examined in detail: Spain and the... more » New World; Staging the "Comedia": Then and Now; Feminist and Gender Studies; Critical Approaches: From Philosophy to Psychology; Themes, Myths and Archetypes; The "Comedia" in History; The Text; and Authenticating and Editing. The variety and depth of these attests to the dynamic state of "comedia" studies at the end of the twentieth century, and shows that Golden Age theatre still delights us aesthetically and stimulates us intellectually. Contributors: Thomas Benedetti, Thomas E. Case, Viviana Diaz Balsera, Maria E. Moux, R. Shannon, Margaret R. Hicks, Barbara Simerka, Dawn L. Smith, Brenda Krebs, Anita K. Stoll, Sara A. Taddeo, Sharon D. Voros, Robert Hershberger, Ted E. McVay, Jr., Barbara Mujica, Matthew D. Stroud, Isaac Benabu, Shelly Chitwood, F. William Forbes, Jesus Garcia-Varela, L. Carl Johnson, Gordon Summer, Santiago Garcia-Castanon, Jose Luis Suarez Garcia, Jame W. Albrecht, and Sandra L. Nielsen. Co-published with the Golden Age Spanish Drama Symposium.« less