JONATHAN THACKER is King Alfonso XIII Professor of Spanish Studies at the University of Oxford and Professorial Fellow at Exeter College, Oxford.

• The Comedia in English: An Overview of Translation and PerformanceTranslating Comedias into English Verse for Modern Audiences - Dakin MatthewsTranslating the Polymetric Comedia for Performance [with Special Ref erence to Lope de Vega's Sonnets] - Victor DixonLope de Vega in English: The Historicised Imagination - David JohnstonFound in Translation: María de Zaya's Friendship Betrayed and the En glish-Speaking Stage - Catherine LarsonTransformation and Fluidity in the Translation of Classical Texts for Perfo rmance: The Case of Cervantes's Entremeses - Dawn L. SmithTranslation as Relocation - Ben GunterRehearsing Spite for Spite - Michael HalberstamDirecting Don Juan, The Trickster Of Seville - Anne McNaughtonDirecting the Comedia: Notes on a Process - Tirso's Tamar Untamed: A Lesson of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Producti on - Jonathan W. ThackerThe Loss of Context and the Traps of Gender in Sor Juana's Los empeños de una casa/House of Desires - Catherine M. BoyleTirso's Burlador de Sevilla as Playtext in English - James ParrAnne McNaughton's Don Juan: A Rogue for All Seasons - A. Robert LauerAspectual, Performative, and "Foreign" Lope/Shakespeare: Staging Capulet s & Montagues and Peribáñez in English and Romeo and Juliet in "Sicilian"I> in "Sicilian" - Susan L. FischerZaya's Comic Sense: The First Performance in English of La traición en la amistad - Sharon D VorosMaría de Zaya's Friendship Betrayed à la Hollywood: Translation, Transculturation, and Production - Barbara Mujica

[B]ooks like The Comedia in English will prove indispensible in helping to bridge the gap between comediantes and English-speaking practitioners, audiences, and critics alike. ROMANISCHE FORSCHUNGEN [T]he book's variety of perspectives coupled with the quality of the articles, make this a work worthy of attention by anyone with an interest in the current state of the comedia in the Anglophone world, whether in Spanish or English translation.

JONATHAN THACKER is King Alfonso XIII Professor of Spanish Studies at the University of Oxford and Professorial Fellow at Exeter College, Oxford.

• The Comedia in English: An Overview of Translation and PerformanceTranslating Comedias into English Verse for Modern Audiences - Dakin MatthewsTranslating the Polymetric Comedia for Performance [with Special Ref erence to Lope de Vega's Sonnets] - Victor DixonLope de Vega in English: The Historicised Imagination - David JohnstonFound in Translation: María de Zaya's Friendship Betrayed and the En glish-Speaking Stage - Catherine LarsonTransformation and Fluidity in the Translation of Classical Texts for Perfo rmance: The Case of Cervantes's Entremeses - Dawn L. SmithTranslation as Relocation - Ben GunterRehearsing Spite for Spite - Michael HalberstamDirecting Don Juan, The Trickster Of Seville - Anne McNaughtonDirecting the Comedia: Notes on a Process - Tirso's Tamar Untamed: A Lesson of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Producti on - Jonathan W. ThackerThe Loss of Context and the Traps of Gender in Sor Juana's Los empeños de una casa/House of Desires - Catherine M. BoyleTirso's Burlador de Sevilla as Playtext in English - James ParrAnne McNaughton's Don Juan: A Rogue for All Seasons - A. Robert LauerAspectual, Performative, and "Foreign" Lope/Shakespeare: Staging Capulet s & Montagues and Peribáñez in English and Romeo and Juliet in "Sicilian"I> in "Sicilian" - Susan L. FischerZaya's Comic Sense: The First Performance in English of La traición en la amistad - Sharon D VorosMaría de Zaya's Friendship Betrayed à la Hollywood: Translation, Transculturation, and Production - Barbara Mujica

[B]ooks like The Comedia in English will prove indispensible in helping to bridge the gap between comediantes and English-speaking practitioners, audiences, and critics alike. ROMANISCHE FORSCHUNGEN [T]he book's variety of perspectives coupled with the quality of the articles, make this a work worthy of attention by anyone with an interest in the current state of the comedia in the Anglophone world, whether in Spanish or English translation.

JONATHAN THACKER is King Alfonso XIII Professor of Spanish Studies at the University of Oxford and Professorial Fellow at Exeter College, Oxford.

• The Comedia in English: An Overview of Translation and PerformanceTranslating Comedias into English Verse for Modern Audiences - Dakin MatthewsTranslating the Polymetric Comedia for Performance [with Special Ref erence to Lope de Vega's Sonnets] - Victor DixonLope de Vega in English: The Historicised Imagination - David JohnstonFound in Translation: María de Zaya's Friendship Betrayed and the En glish-Speaking Stage - Catherine LarsonTransformation and Fluidity in the Translation of Classical Texts for Perfo rmance: The Case of Cervantes's Entremeses - Dawn L. SmithTranslation as Relocation - Ben GunterRehearsing Spite for Spite - Michael HalberstamDirecting Don Juan, The Trickster Of Seville - Anne McNaughtonDirecting the Comedia: Notes on a Process - Tirso's Tamar Untamed: A Lesson of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Producti on - Jonathan W. ThackerThe Loss of Context and the Traps of Gender in Sor Juana's Los empeños de una casa/House of Desires - Catherine M. BoyleTirso's Burlador de Sevilla as Playtext in English - James ParrAnne McNaughton's Don Juan: A Rogue for All Seasons - A. Robert LauerAspectual, Performative, and "Foreign" Lope/Shakespeare: Staging Capulet s & Montagues and Peribáñez in English and Romeo and Juliet in "Sicilian"I> in "Sicilian" - Susan L. FischerZaya's Comic Sense: The First Performance in English of La traición en la amistad - Sharon D VorosMaría de Zaya's Friendship Betrayed à la Hollywood: Translation, Transculturation, and Production - Barbara Mujica

[B]ooks like The Comedia in English will prove indispensible in helping to bridge the gap between comediantes and English-speaking practitioners, audiences, and critics alike. ROMANISCHE FORSCHUNGEN [T]he book's variety of perspectives coupled with the quality of the articles, make this a work worthy of attention by anyone with an interest in the current state of the comedia in the Anglophone world, whether in Spanish or English translation.