Daring Adaptations, Creative Failures and Experimental Performances in Iberian Theatre

María Chouza-Calo is Professor of Spanish at Central Michigan University. Esther Fernández is Associate Professor of Iberian Studies at Rice University. Jonathan Thacker is King Alfonso XIII Professor of Spanish Studies at the University of Oxford.

• IntroductionMaría del Pilar Chouza-Calo, Esther Fernández, Jonathan ThackerPart I. Playing Upon GenderChapter 1: Snares of Safety: Guillén de Castro’s La fuerza de la costumbre (1610-1615), The Force of Habit (2019) in ProductionKathleen JeffsChapter 2: Unruly Mujeres: Adapting Women’s Rebellious Voices on the Modern StageSarah GrunnahChapter 3: Electra (1910): Daring Memories of Galdós’s Most Polemic SuccessEsther Fernández and Cristina Martínez-CarazoChapter 4: The “Pleasure” of Wife-Murder Drama: The Aesthetics of Gender-Based Violence in Palabras encadenadasSonia Pérez VillanuevaPart II. Daring ActsChapter 5: Theatricality in a “sacred drama, not to be represented”: the Spanish 1700s’ OratorioRosa Sanz HermidaChapter 6: On Action and Discovery and What to Do with Them in Translation and PerformanceCatherine BoyleChapter 7: Habit, Suggestion, and Imitation in fin-de-siècle Spanish TheatreJuan MencheroChapter 8: Fuegoártico: A Beautiful Defeat. Jeremy James and the Creation of an Ensemble Methodology in Madrid, 2014Simon BredenChapter 9: Adapting Bolaño’s 2666 for the Stage: Rigola (2007), Falls (2016), and Gosselin (2016)Anton PujolPart III. Transcultural NegotiationsChapter 10: Translating Marginalities: Staging Linguistic Diversity in the ComediaLaura MuñozChapter 11: The Merry Valencian Widow: Negotiating the Russian Lopean Canon in the Late Twentieth CenturyVeronika RyjikChapter 12: From Golden Age to Civil War: Stages of Spain in YugoslaviaAlma PrelecChapter 13: From the Warsaw Ghetto to Messianic Time: Polis and Memory in Juan Mayorga’s El cartógrafo. Varsovia, 1: 400.000Juan CaamañoChapter 14: Rewriting Race: The Angels in America Scandal and New Representations of Blackness in Contemporary Catalan DramaIsaias FanloChapter 15: Testing the Audience’s Judgement: Please, Continue (Hamlet) by Roger Bernat and Yan DuyvendakDavid Rodríguez-SolásBiographies

"This book highlights the theater production of the Iberian Peninsula in a very broad spectrum, which is a perspective that is rarely found."Elena Cueto Asín, Bowdoin College