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Minni Sawhney deposited Friendship and Politics in the works of Cervantes and Lope de Vega in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 2 months agoThe convivencia between the followers of the different religions of the Mediterranean persisted despite the fraught politics of Christianity and Islam. Despite the long arm of the Inquisition the protagonists in the plays of Cervantes and Lope struggle to maintain fraternal ties.
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Minni Sawhney deposited Cervantes’ cosmopolitan El gallardo español during an earlier clash of civilisations. in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 2 months agoDespite being an army officer Don Fernando is drawn towards the Muslim Princess Arlaxa. He defies army convention to meet her much to the chagrin of fellow Spanish soldiers in the presidio where they are stationed.
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Minni Sawhney deposited The Agency of Muslim Women in the Narrative of Cervantes in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 2 months agoDespite prevailing stereotypes, the Muslim women in Cervantes’ captivity plays are forthright, ambitious and endowed with considerable agency. Though there is no evidence that Cervantes had read Erasmus, yet his portrayal of women shows them as standing their ground during adversity.
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Minni Sawhney deposited “La frontera hispano-musulmana en El Hamete de Toledo y El cordobés valeroso Pedro Carbonero de Lope de Vega” in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 2 months agoEl reflejo del islam en dos obras de Lope de Vega.
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Minni Sawhney deposited La evolución de la sensibilidad islámica en el teatro de Cervantes in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 2 months agoPortrayal of Muslims in Cervantes drama
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Minni Sawhney deposited Fantasy and the Honour Code: Lope’s “La viuda valenciana and “El cordobés valeroso Pedro Carbonero in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 2 months agoPortrayal of Otherness in Lope’s dramas
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Minni Sawhney deposited Distintos enfoques para enseñar el teatro calderoniano en la India. in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 2 months agoIn this work I show how the writings of Spanish historians such as José Antonio Maravall, Américo Castro y Dominguez Ortiz have been useful in the teaching of Calderon’s drama in India.
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Minni Sawhney deposited Distintos enfoques para enseñar el teatro calderoniano en la India. in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 2 months agoIn this work I show how the writings of Spanish historians such as José Antonio Maravall, Américo Castro y Dominguez Ortiz have been useful in the teaching of Calderon’s drama in India.
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Noemi Martin Santo deposited “Vive el Sol, / si Dios le debo llamar”. La conversión de un príncipe en Los mártires del Japón de Lope de Vega in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 2 months, 2 weeks agoThis article examines the conversion to Christianity of the prince Tayco in the comedia de santos Los mártires del Japón by Lope de Vega and the creation of the Dominican missionary Alonso de Navarrete as a dramatic character. Lope portraits Tayco as a young prince who has to learn how to become a king, having Navarrete as a role model. Lope c…[Read more]
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Noelia Sol Cirnigliaro started the topic 2 additional Panels on Why Theater Matters and Performing Childhood @ Seattle in the discussion
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 5 months, 1 week agoAnd another reminder: there is still time to submit abstracts for these two panel @ Seattle [Send us your 250-word abstract and CV by 15 March 2019 to Noelia.Cirnigliaro@dartmouth.edu]. Panel on childhood is Co-sponsored by GEMELA.
Why Theater Matters: Then and Now
Theater clearly mattered in early modern times as evidenced by the…[Read more]
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Noelia Sol Cirnigliaro started the topic Panel on Comedia, Disability, Disease @ Seattle in the discussion
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 5 months, 1 week agoJust a reminder: there is still time to submit abstracts for this panel @ Seattle [Send us your 250-word abstract and CV by 15 March 2019 to Noelia.Cirnigliaro@dartmouth.edu]
Building on work in the history of medicine and disability studies, this panel will engage with the following questions: How was disease construed and negotiated in early…[Read more]
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Maria Chouza-Calo started the topic Third Biennial Conference of the Iberian Theater and Performance Network (ITPN) in the discussion
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 8 months, 3 weeks agoThird Biennial Conference of the Iberian Theater and Performance Network (ITPN)School of Advanced Study, Senate House | University of London 25-27 June 2020CALL FOR PAPERSTHEATRICAL PROCESSESThe Third Biennial Conference of the Iberian Theater and Performance Network (ITPN) will focus on the topic of theatrical processes. We are particularly i…[Read more]
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Erin Cowling posted an update in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months agoMLA Special Session on Theatre and Adaptation: In keeping with the 2019 MLA Presidential Theme “Textual Transactions”, this special session for the 2019 MLA Annual Convention in Chicago, Jan 3-6, is looking for papers discussing the transactional nature of adaptations, between author, actor, and audience, from the seventeenth century to today.…[Read more]
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Christopher Gascón posted an update in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months agoDEADLINE EXTENDED!
The AHCT Annual Spanish Golden Age Theater Symposium
April 12-14, 2018, Hilton Garden Inn, El Paso, TXThe NEW EXTENDED DEADLINE for receipt of all submissions (abstracts and graduate student papers) is OCTOBER 1, 2017
The Association for Hispanic Classical Theater invites submissions for its 2018 Symposium. The conference…[Read more]
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Kathryn Anne Everly posted an update in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 2 years agoDakin Matthews: 2018 AHCT Symposium Donald T. Dietz Plenary Speaker, Saturday, April 14, 2018. Dakin Matthews has served as Artistic Director of Andak Stage Company, California Actors Theatre, the Berkeley Shakespeare Festival, and the Antaeus Company, and is an Emeritus Professor of English from California State University, East Bay. An…[Read more]
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Kathryn Anne Everly posted an update in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 2 years agoThird Call for Papers:
The AHCT Annual Spanish Golden Age Theater Symposium
April 12–14, 2018, Hilton Garden Inn, El Paso, TX
Submission deadline: September 1, 2017.
The Association for Hispanic Classical Theater invites submissions for its 2018 Symposium. The conference dates coincide with the world’s longest-running Spanish Golden Age the…[Read more] -
Erin Cowling started the topic CFP: Call for edited volume in the discussion
Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Drama on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoCFP: Social Justice and the Golden Age Comedia
This is a call for an EDITED VOLUME on Social Justice in Spanish Golden Age Theater.
This edited volume will focus on issues of social justice in theatrical works of Golden Age Spain. For example, the 2013 Repertorio Español production of Fuenteovejuna illustrates how relevant social justice…[Read more]
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Julien Jacques Simon deposited Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 3 years agoCognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature is the first anthology exploring human cognition and literature in the context of early modern Spanish culture. It includes the leading voices in the field, along with the main themes and directions that this important area of study has been producing. The book begins with an overview of the…[Read more]
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Hugh M. Richmond deposited The U.C. Berkeley Shakespeare Program in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months agoThis essay describes and illustrates the activities associated with the University of California at Berkeley’s Shakespeare Program, over the last forty years, covering teaching innovations, numerous research publications, multiple productions and videos of Shakespeare’s plays, and creation of websites, Shakespeare’s Staging and Milton Revealed.
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Erin Cowling started the topic CFP: “Social Justice in the Golden Age/Justicia social en el Siglo de Oro.” in the forum
Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Drama on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoCall for Papers – Special Session: “Social Justice in the Golden Age/Justicia social en el Siglo de Oro.”
The Association for Hispanic Classical Theater (AHCT)
Annual Spanish Golden Age Theater Symposium
March 19 – 21, 2015, Hilton Garden Inn, El Paso.
Deadline for submissions for special session: July 15, 2014This is a call for a SPECI…[Read more]
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