Knowledge Commons | Spanish Golden Age Literature | Activity https://hcommons.org/groups/spanish-golden-age-literature/ Activity feed for the group, Spanish Golden Age Literature. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:40:55 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 175d34c5def392c3b7d79d35d1a7be29 Laura Francis started the topic CFP: Migration and the Early Modern Spanish Empire (June 10-12, 2026 @ NUIM) in the forum Spanish Golden Age Literature https://hcommons.org/groups/spanish-golden-age-literature/forum/topic/cfp-migration-and-the-early-modern-spanish-empire-june-10-12-2026-nuim-5/ Thu, 30 Oct 2025 15:10:38 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

I am excited to announce the following call for papers for a conference on “Migration and the Early Modern Spanish Empire” that will take place from June 10th-12th, 2026 at the National University of Ireland in Maynooth.

Please see the attached PDF for further details. The deadline for submissions is December 19th, 2025.

I am…[Read more]

]]> 51966ceb3eb99d4d52cdb741eb307ce9 Eduardo Paredes Ocampo deposited Kemp y Juan Rana: reconstrucción e implicaciones culturales del gesto dancístico en la Inglaterra y España de la modernidad temprana in the group Spanish Golden Age Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887549/ Thu, 30 May 2024 03:00:14 -0400 Comparative study examining the dance of Will Kemp (England) and Juan Rana (Spain), in the theatrical context of early modern Europe.

]]> 0 d72913f52dfa9ee689d493d36ac24b83 Eduardo Paredes Ocampo deposited Reconstructing Relationships of Desire: Homosexuality in Spanish Golden Age Theater in the group Spanish Golden Age Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1874119/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 04:05:05 -0500 The figure of the marión, maricón or puto—the male homosexual—appears in many Spanish Golden Age plays. The critical approaches to this dramatic type have centered on thematic and textual issues, ignoring the performative cues inscribed on the character. For this reason, this paper reconstructs the acting of male homoeroticism in the comed…[Read more]

]]> 0 55419b4265e8b7dd1c6d11552739281c Ali Shehzad Zaidi deposited High Tea in the group Spanish Golden Age Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1874086/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 03:00:05 -0500 Tribute to Robert ter Horst, Spanish Golden Age scholar.

]]> 0 444c3665dbc0f884513287549b1df5df Eduardo Paredes Ocampo deposited Superhero Segismundo: Uncovering the Politics of Angry Gestures in the 2018 Graphic Novel Adaptation of La vida es sueño in the group Spanish Golden Age Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1871310/ Wed, 17 Jan 2024 03:00:44 -0500 The comic adaptation of La vida es sueño by Calderón de la Barca (2018) emphasizes the emotion of anger as one of the forces that guides the plot. The protagonist, Segismundo, displays aggression through two main gestures: the clenching fist and the frown on his face. This article aims to answer the following questions: Why did the comic artist d…[Read more]

]]> 0 8585b668afb1104823dbdd3cb4014d49 Álvaro Cuéllar deposited Artificial Intelligence to the Rescue of the Spanish Golden Age: Automatic Transcription and Modernization of One Thousand Three Hundred Theatrical Prints and Manuscripts in the group Spanish Golden Age Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1861761/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 03:06:31 -0400 A high percentage of theatrical prints and manuscripts from the aurisecular period have never been transcribed in an analogical or, of course, digital format. It is therefore impossible to use these documents to carry out searches of our interest or for the valuable computer analyses (stylometry, topic modelling, sentiment analysis, etc.) that…[Read more]

]]> 0 8cc942e038da39649b43466521ddf293 Álvaro Cuéllar deposited TEXORO: Textos del Siglo de Oro in the group Spanish Golden Age Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1861757/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 03:05:59 -0400 TEXORO: Textos del Siglo de Oro es una herramienta desarrollada por Álvaro Cuéllar y Germán Vega que permite realizar búsquedas en un amplio corpus de teatro del Siglo de Oro. Es nuestra intención que un futuro crezca ofreciendo otros tipos de textos fuera del ámbito teatral.

]]> 0 2415e8ea2f9d2a74eabb6104b642d43e Álvaro Cuéllar deposited ETSO: Estilometría aplicada al Teatro del Siglo de Oro in the group Spanish Golden Age Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1861753/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 03:05:29 -0400 El proyecto ETSO: Estilometría aplicada al Teatro del Siglo de Oro surge del interés del investigador Álvaro Cuéllar y del catedrático Germán Vega García-Luengos en aplicar las nuevas herramientas informáticas a los numerosos problemas de autoría que presenta el teatro del Siglo de Oro español. Este portal trata de ofrecer análisis que puedan arr…[Read more]

]]> 0 1eb96129b4f4ca4f5dac264e5deab305 Álvaro Cuéllar deposited Chronology and Stylometry: Automatic Dating of Lope de Vega's Comedies in the group Spanish Golden Age Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1861749/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 03:04:57 -0400 Finding the accurate date of texts is one of the most puzzling challenges in the study of Spanish aurisecular theater. Stylometry, the computer technique centered on the comparison of texts based on their writing, which has been successfully used in recent years to solve authorship questions, can also serve to shed light on this issue. In this…[Read more]

]]> 0 1d5ef45657b35d0345cd3a47754e4c3b Álvaro Cuéllar deposited A New Dramatic Repertoire for Andrés de Claramonte in the group Spanish Golden Age Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1861745/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 03:04:27 -0400 Claramonte is one of the playwrights who has had the most unusual fate in our theatrical heritage. Reviled by early scholars as a plagiarist, recaster and, ultimately, a second-order author, in recent decades he has reemerged as a possible author of capital works of our theatre. Using stylometric techniques that have been proven to be effective…[Read more]

]]> 0 1c9bbd17ee391301b774da3991354951 Álvaro Cuéllar deposited La francesa Laura. The Discovery of a New Comedy from the Later Lope de Vega in the group Spanish Golden Age Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1861741/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 03:03:46 -0400 This article proposes the inclusion in Lope's repertoire of La francesa Laura, a comedia preserved in an anonymous manuscript of the BNE, never before related to the playwright. The investigation started thanks to the results of the process in the Transkribus and ETSO platforms, which pointed out the close relationship of the lexicon with the…[Read more]

]]> 0 a242b42ef45fd98df2fe3cf6d9bc27e1 Álvaro Cuéllar deposited Cronología y estilometría: datación automática de comedias de Lope de Vega in the group Spanish Golden Age Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1861737/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 03:03:16 -0400 La datación supone una de las cuestiones con más interrogantes en el estudio del teatro aurisecular español. La estilometría, técnica informática basada en la comparación de textos en función de sus usos escriturales y que está utilizándose con aparente acierto en los últimos años para arrojar luz sobre el problema de la autoría, puede servir…[Read more]

]]> 0 548950141a03f016bd0e7564fb735828 Álvaro Cuéllar deposited Un nuevo repertorio dramático para Andrés de Claramonte in the group Spanish Golden Age Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1861733/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 03:02:35 -0400 Claramonte es uno de los dramaturgos que más extraña suerte ha corrido de nuestro patrimonio teatral. Vilipendiado por los primeros estudiosos como plagiario, refundidor y, en definitiva, autor de segundo orden, en las últimas décadas ha resurgido como posible responsable de obras capitales de nuestro teatro. A través del empleo de técnicas estil…[Read more]

]]> 0 d6c9e11a29565803ba4bdc93ddf4d90f Álvaro Cuéllar deposited Discernir entre original y refundición en el teatro del Siglo de Oro a través de la estilometría: el caso de El mejor amigo, el muerto in the group Spanish Golden Age Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1861729/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 03:02:06 -0400 La refundición supone un fenómeno recurrente en el teatro aurisecular español. Existen numerosos casos en los que un dramaturgo parte de un texto previo y lo modifica para conformar una nueva obra reutilizando un cierto número de versos. En ocasiones, el paso del tiempo confunde la obra primigenia con la refundición y resulta complicado esta…[Read more]

]]> 0 b092b0bc8abe39bb5e4480a18189606e Álvaro Cuéllar deposited La Inteligencia Artificial al rescate del Siglo de Oro: transcripción y modernización automática de mil trescientos impresos y manuscritos teatrales in the group Spanish Golden Age Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1861499/ Thu, 12 Oct 2023 03:00:41 -0400 Un elevado porcentaje de impresos y manuscritos teatrales del periodo aurisecular no ha sido nunca transcrito en un formato analógico ni, por supuesto, digital. Es imposible, por tanto, emplear estos documentos para realizar búsquedas de nuestro interés o para los valiosos análisis informáticos (estilometría, topic modelling, detección de sentim…[Read more]

]]> 0 05685d8c791960e01317a2a54180c6ca Itziar Mitxelena deposited Itsas Hondarra in the group Spanish Golden Age Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1861494/ Thu, 12 Oct 2023 03:00:03 -0400 "Itsas Hondarra" es una ficción dialogada escrita en Euskara. Su asunto surge de la lectura de un pasaje de "Gero" en el que Pedro de Axular explica que a los que mueren en el mar, sin poderse confesar, les basta el arrepentimiento sincero para salvar su alma.

]]> 0 07c68f0dfaaf899fd8fd618ac364e491 Álvaro Cuéllar deposited «La francesa Laura». El hallazgo de una nueva comedia del Lope de Vega último in the group Spanish Golden Age Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1861368/ Wed, 11 Oct 2023 03:01:08 -0400 El trabajo propone que se considere la inclusión en el repertorio de Lope de La francesa Laura, una comedia conservada en un manuscrito anónimo de la BNE, nunca antes relacionada con el dramaturgo. La investigación se inició a la vista de los resultados de su procesamiento en las plataformas Transkribus y ETSO, que señalaban la estrecha rela…[Read more]

]]> 0 29b176a349b3e6118c5592b847da1eab David Amelang deposited David J. Amelang, “Las Humanidades Digitales y la redefinición del canon teatral del Siglo de Oro” (Boletín de la Biblioteca de Menéndez Pelayo XCVII.1, 2021), pp. 115-134 in the group Spanish Golden Age Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1856826/ Tue, 29 Aug 2023 01:09:01 -0400 Respondiendo al creciente interés por cuestiones de diversidad en la cultura y el entretenimiento actual, las instituciones académicas y artísticas dedicadas al teatro clásico español buscan reflejar estas nuevas tendencias en su selección de obras para ser estudiadas y/o representadas. Este esfuerzo de cambiar de aires plantea ciertos probl…[Read more]

]]> 0 84f24d11637d0205dfa7914c1eb5e8a6 David Amelang deposited David J. Amelang, "Explorando la presencia de personajes femeninos en la comedia en tiempos de Lope de Vega desde las Humanidades Digitales" (Hipogrifo 11.1, 2023) pp. 39-54 in the group Spanish Golden Age Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1856824/ Tue, 29 Aug 2023 01:08:46 -0400 Este artículo visibiliza el uso que se le puede dar a una serie de proyectos de Humanidades Digitales, como son las bases de datos de Rolecall, DICAT y CATCOM o la biblioteca digital EMOTHE, a la hora de analizar las dinámicas escenográficas en el teatro español de finales del siglo XVI y principios del siglo XVII, coincidiendo con las déc…[Read more]

]]> 0 3d1dd7c3ccdba1294283dc82713f0115 Elizabeth B. Davis deposited "Woman, Why Weepest Thou?" Re-Visioning the Golden Age Magdalen in the group Spanish Golden Age Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1835739/ Wed, 01 Mar 2023 02:24:16 -0500 This article examines Mary Magdalene's biblical identity and poetic representation in selected sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish texts. An alternative reading or "re-visioning" (Adrienne Rich's term) of the narratives that tell her story reclaims her figure from masculinist characterizations of Mary Magdalene that have made an enduring…[Read more]

]]> 0 baff336e57605c951b50a2991934bc4d Elizabeth B. Davis deposited Iglesia, mar y Casa Real: Imaginario de la odisea en la épica del Siglo de Oro in the group Spanish Golden Age Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834643/ Fri, 17 Feb 2023 02:25:17 -0500 In this book chapter, Dr. Davis examines the depiction of a dissimulated desire for material improvement (mejora) as it is expressed in the epic poetry of imperial Spain, particularly in Alonso de Ercilla's La Araucana. She shows that within the aristocratic context of the times, the desire for personal betterment or "mejora" is always contingent…[Read more]

]]> 0 1eb7ffccc0506b076728e653f6dd7474 Elizabeth B. Davis deposited La promesa del náufrago: el motivo marinero del ex-voto, de Garcilaso a Quevedo in the group Spanish Golden Age Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834638/ Fri, 17 Feb 2023 02:24:41 -0500 The nautical motif of the ex-voto (votive offering) is a lyric genre that reflects poetically the possible experience of a shipwreck survivor. Paradoxically, many of the poets who evoke the perils of sea travel never left Spain or, at most, sailed only the waters of the Mediterranean. Their writing of the sea remained consistently codified in…[Read more]

]]> 0 9642ef6267c7f9a7aa9c143254dbbfa8 Elizabeth B. Davis deposited De nuevo, sobre la "literariedad" de Teresa de Jesús in the group Spanish Golden Age Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834281/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 02:28:27 -0500 This article examines two important texts of Teresa de Jesús, El Libro de la vida and Las moradas del castillo interior, to take a new look at an old debate about whether Santa Teresa's written expression is "spontaneous" or whether it is in fact more literary. Dr. Davis arrives at the conclusion that the writer's works are both more indebted to…[Read more]

]]> 0 9b9a5a4703fed2d5984419ea8e9b342f Elizabeth B. Davis deposited Un soneto de Quevedo al nacimiento de Cristo: ¿ortodoxo o astrológico? in the group Spanish Golden Age Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834277/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 02:27:58 -0500 In this early article, written in the wake of the publication of Alessandro Martinengo's _La astrología en la obra de Quevedo_ (Madrid: Alhambra, 1983), Dr. Davis focuses on the astrological tropes in a Quevedo sonnet on the nativity of Christ to see whether this poetic text can shed additional light on the poet's documented penchant for…[Read more]

]]> 0 d395ce6c0b4e134a1444258a06a6f44a Elizabeth B. Davis deposited Conquistas de las Indias de Dios: Early Poetic Appropriations of the Indies by the Spanish Renaissance in the group Spanish Golden Age Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834274/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 02:27:32 -0500 Professor Davis's early article on appropriations of the Indies by Spanish poets who remained in Spain invites us to contemplate a body of poetry that plays the idea of American treasures against the value of true, spiritual riches.

]]> 0 fb7cabb9e5e5a40e13b413136696dfad Elizabeth B. Davis deposited Hagiographic Jest in Quevedo: Tradition and Departure in the group Spanish Golden Age Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834269/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 02:26:48 -0500 Several of Francisco de Quevedo's hagiographic poems are puzzling because of their irreverent tone. Edward M. Wilson and Jose Manuel Blecua both noted that "la relacion entre las dos caras de un Quevedo es cuestión difícil y delicada para los modernos;" indeed, the writer's particular blend of "las burlas con las veras" has attracted attention s…[Read more]

]]> 0 99eb07630b2daec98d0d604714619a6e Elizabeth B. Davis deposited Time of catastrophe: temporalities in the transatlantic relación of Diego Portichuelo de Ribadeneyra in the group Spanish Golden Age Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834265/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 02:26:22 -0500 Using the transatlantic relación of Diego Portichuelo de Ribadeneyra (1657) as an example, this essay tracks some of the ways in which several religious passengers narrated their experience crossing the Atlantic Ocean in the Spanish Indies fleets during the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries. Of particular importance here are the ways in…[Read more]

]]> 0 a44523ae719efeb4d544105d654fe898 Elizabeth B. Davis deposited Quevedo and the Rending of the Rocks in the group Spanish Golden Age Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834260/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 02:25:55 -0500 This essay analyzes the work of the poetic function as defined by Roman Jakobson in poems by Francisco de Quevedo that concern themselves with the trope of the rending of the rocks at the moment of Christ's death on the cross, and in other poetic texts of Quevedo.

]]> 0 7f85ed480f5e06c3dee052f2c1c8ce6b Elizabeth B. Davis deposited Travesías peligrosas: escritos marítimos en España durante la Época Imperial, 1492-1650 in the group Spanish Golden Age Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834257/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 02:25:22 -0500 This chapter is the product of a Keynote Address that Dr. Davis offered at the VII Conference of the Asociación Internacional Siglo de Oro which took place at Robinson College, Cambridge, 18-22 July, 2005. Here the author examines a variety of kinds of early modern Spanish maritime writing (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries).

]]> 0 fb47a99be8ac8f79ce7026e5b173f117 Jonathan Beutler deposited «Fablar en otra cosa más aprovechosa»: El didactismo y la teología política en la tradición caballeresca: un acercamiento al discurso doctrinal de la Quinta parte de El Conde Lucanor in the group Spanish Golden Age Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1794312/ Thu, 15 Sep 2022 02:23:51 -0400 El objetivo del presente trabajo investigativo es examinar el discurso teológico en la obra didáctica del prosista medieval y noble castellano Don Juan Manuel, en particular en la quinta parte de El Conde Lucanor, considerar el contexto cultural y sociopolítico en que se produjo, explorar sus pautas discursivas e indagar el texto desde la pe…[Read more]

]]> 0 335bafa48e36a80dc8d91833e682f56b Itziar Mitxelena deposited Fernando Gorriaraneko in the group Spanish Golden Age Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1793907/ Mon, 12 Sep 2022 02:23:39 -0400 “Fernando Gorriaraneko” es una ficción filológica dialogada escrita en Euskara. Cuenta como Fernando de Gorriaran acabó la “Comedia de Jalisko y Eztia.”

]]> 0 c122ac4a7cd45e6051538077635aacdc Eduardo Paredes Ocampo deposited A Bicephalic Melancholiac: Acting a Royal Pathology in Spanish Golden Age Drama in the group Spanish Golden Age Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1781025/ Sun, 08 May 2022 02:23:58 -0400 This study presents a reconstruction of the performance of the melancholic character in Golden Age theater. It argues that critics have overlooked the way this character type was acted on the original stage. Using Lope’s El Príncipe melancólico [The Melancholic Prince] as a case-study to speculate on the actor’s paralinguistic gestures and movem…[Read more]

]]> 0 685b6b9ac17dabbc4ccf8286c84c490f Eduardo Paredes Ocampo deposited The Tangible/Intangible Dialectic in La dama duende: A Critical Appreciation of the CNTC's 2017 Production in the group Spanish Golden Age Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1781021/ Sun, 08 May 2022 02:23:50 -0400 The CNTC’s 2017 production of La dama duende presented the transition between the two main characters’ rooms in the third jornada using two illuminated windows at the rear wall of the stage. The comparison between this rendition and other modern productions reveals two problems in adaptation: the fidelity with the original and the und…[Read more]

]]> 0 0a8979bb582e0b0bd05708377167de28 Erin Cowling started the topic Comedia Performance seeks new editor in the discussion Spanish Golden Age Literature https://hcommons.org/groups/spanish-golden-age-literature/forum/topic/comedia-performance-seeks-new-editor/ Mon, 31 Jan 2022 17:34:33 -0500 CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR EDITOR OF COMEDIA PERFORMANCE
The Association for Hispanic Classical Theater (AHCT), whose mission is to promote and foster greater appreciation for Spain’s classical drama in production, seeks nominations for the position of General Editor of its journal, Comedia Performance, which publishes on diverse aspects of perf…[Read more]

]]> 592a9994c2932f01b60a275239b85fd2 Alexander J McNair deposited Vida y muerte del Cid de "Un ingenio de esta corte": Transmisión y recepción de las sueltas tardías in the group Spanish Golden Age Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1754208/ Fri, 08 Oct 2021 02:24:44 -0400 Cuando Antonio Enríquez Gómez (AEG) escribió su comedia cidiana, El noble siempre es valiente, en la primavera de 1660, no podría sospechar el éxito que iba a gozar un siglo y medio más tarde, tanto en el teatro como en la imprenta. Entre el manuscrito (autógrafo, por lo menos en parte) de 5 abril 1660 y las primeras versiones del siglo XVIII…[Read more]

]]> 0 5435a707385c85bfa8e6313c3c24adfb Alexander J McNair deposited El Cid Campeador between Luzán and Lorca: Recovering a Nineteenth-Century Pop-Culture Favorite in the group Spanish Golden Age Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1719876/ Tue, 15 Dec 2020 02:24:29 -0500 Only a small number of fragments, which could be categorized (generously) as “medieval,” actually survive in modern ballad traditions. As it turns out, however, one could in fact hear hundreds of verses about the Cid being recited in the streets of Spanish towns and cities in the nineteenth century. But they were verses that survived pre…[Read more]

]]> 0 8e0f266eb1f044626800e20b421a5216 David Amelang deposited David J. Amelang, “Gente de la Parroquia: identidad social del barrio teatral en el Madrid del Siglo de Oro” in Fernando Andrés, Mauro Hernández and Saúl Martínez (eds.), Mirando desde el puente. Estudios en homenaje al profesor James S. Amelang (UAM Ediciones, 2019), pp. 357-366 in the group Spanish Golden Age Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1717520/ Thu, 19 Nov 2020 02:24:46 -0500 "Hace ya veintiséis años se publicó una colección de ensayos en homenaje a la historiadora Natalie Zemon Davis que incluía un capítulo llamado “People of the Ribera: Popular Politics and Neighborhood Identity in Early Modern Barcelona”. En él, su autor, a quien ahora dedicamos esta obra, delinea brevemente una metodología para analizar el perfil s…[Read more]

]]> 0 301e385390439e39b921918355a125eb David Amelang deposited David J. Amelang, “Comparing the Commercial Theaters of Early Modern London and Madrid” (Renaissance Quarterly 71.2, 2018), pp. 610-644 in the group Spanish Golden Age Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1717513/ Thu, 19 Nov 2020 02:24:10 -0500 Comparative studies have revealed uncanny similarities between the theatrical cultures of Shakespearean England and Golden Age Spain, and in particular between the Elizabethan amphitheaters and the Spanish corrales de comedia (courtyard playhouses). Contrary to conventional wisdom, however, Spain’s (and, in particular, Madrid’s) courtyard the…[Read more]

]]> 0 dd088a9debbdea537fce370206bcfc1d David Amelang deposited David J. Amelang, "A Day in the Life: The Performance of Playgoing in Early Modern Madrid and London" (Bulletin of the Comediantes 70.2, 2018), pp. 111-127 in the group Spanish Golden Age Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1716899/ Mon, 16 Nov 2020 02:25:12 -0500 Going to the theater was one of the most distinctive-as well as conspicuous-cultural activities to take place regularly in early modern european cities. Precisely because so many people from all walks of life partook of this highly visible pastime, public theaters became spaces wherein social and cultural boundaries between spectators were easily…[Read more]

]]> 0 a8e4b0121bedd914befc538b59be9bab David Amelang deposited David J. Amelang, "Playing Gender: Toward a Quantitative Comparison of Female Roles in Lope de Vega and Shakespeare" (Bulletin of the Comediantes 71.1-2, 2019), pp. 119-134 in the group Spanish Golden Age Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1716890/ Mon, 16 Nov 2020 02:24:40 -0500 One of the major differences between the otherwise very similar commercial theatrical cultures of early modern Spain and England was that, whereas in England female roles were performed by young, cross-dressed boys, in Spain female performers were prominent in their industry. indeed, actresses in Spain played an active role in the creative process…[Read more]

]]> 0 3e1bd2984b1738d3ab7e549fef42b20f Alexander J McNair deposited Pasillo del Cid Campeador: un curioso pliego suelto del siglo XIX in the group Spanish Golden Age Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1694593/ Wed, 01 Jul 2020 16:25:32 -0400 En su edición del Romancero del Cid de 1871, un compendio de todos los romances del Cid disponibles en versiones impresas de los siglos XVI y XVII, Carolina Michaëlis incluyó un apéndice para demostrar la vitalidad de la tradición cidiana en pleno siglo XIX. Michaëlis escribe: “Para muestra del género de romances populares que aun hoy dia en A…[Read more]

]]> 0 95b20444048a98aef5a153ac8b6bd86c Alexander J McNair deposited Variantes y versos perdidos: El Cid Campeador de A. Enríquez Gómez entre el manuscrito (1660) y las comedias sueltas in the group Spanish Golden Age Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1690017/ Fri, 05 Jun 2020 16:27:16 -0400 El Cid Campeador, obra teatral de Antonio Enríquez Gómez (1660-1663), se publicó reiteradamente a lo largo del siglo XVIII y los primeros años del XIX. La obra, casi desconocida hoy en día, gozó de una popularidad enorme entre 1700 y 1830, tanto en el teatro como en la imprenta, debido en parte a su tema histórico y el estilo barroco, tan de gus…[Read more]

]]> 0 a36fc2f3f543f2e5b2e97dd0af160183 Alexander J McNair deposited A Critical Edition of Antonio Enríquez Gómez’s El Cid Campeador (1660): Project Narrative for Grant Proposal in the group Spanish Golden Age Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1690012/ Fri, 05 Jun 2020 16:26:52 -0400 This paper is the project narrative for a grant proposal submitted in February 2019, that resulted in funding from two different sources to cover travel expenses in support of archival work in Spain (summer 2019). I share this project narrative to encourage others who are considering similar proposals, or who may be thinking about the scholarly…[Read more]

]]> 0 83356d9c6e04d57aabdc599665a9377c Lucia Binotti deposited The Cultural and Literary History of the Spanish Language in the group Spanish Golden Age Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1615501/ Tue, 14 Aug 2018 16:25:46 -0400 Have you ever thought about the language you speak? If the answer is yes, surely you might have wondered: Where does my language come from? How does it change? What are its relationships with other languages? How do its literary and cultural production reflect such evolution and connections? In this course we will approach classic works of Spanish…[Read more]

]]> 0 da85787f13672ff52c2ac7c05f284e37 Lucia Binotti deposited Survey of Medieval and Renaissance Spanish Literature in the group Spanish Golden Age Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1615490/ Tue, 14 Aug 2018 16:25:27 -0400 371 is an introduction to canonical works of Early Modern Spanish. This semester, we take a novel approach to the reading and interpretation of masterpieces of Spanish literature to revisit the notion of canon, and to challenge standard disciplinary approaches that constrain Spanish and Portuguese within the boundaries of national literary and…[Read more]

]]> 0 1d6186b9341f4d11bd18d719c01b4e7d Lucia Binotti deposited Introduction to Hispanic Literature in the group Spanish Golden Age Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1615450/ Tue, 14 Aug 2018 15:15:49 -0400 Spanish 260.001 is a methodological introduction to Hispanic Literature. We focus on three specific genres, Narrative, Poetry and Drama, and the course’s goal is to equip the student with the practical abilities to analyze a literary text in Spanish as well as with a basic knowledge of the major historical trends in Hispanic literature from its o…[Read more]

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