Social Justice in Spanish Golden Age Theatre

Erin Alice Cowling is an assistant professor of Spanish in the Department of Humanities at MacEwan University.Tania de Miguel Magro is an associate professor of Spanish at West Virginia University. Mina Garcia Jordán is an associate professor of Spanish at Elon University.Glenda Y. Nieto-Cuebas is an associate professor of Modern Foreign Languages at Ohio Wesleyan University

• Acknowledgments Foreword Fernando Villa Proal, EFE TRES Teatro IntroductionPart I: Readings of Comedias1. The Poetics of Tragedy and Justice in Vélez de Guevara’s La serrana de la Vera Harrison Meadows, University of Tennessee, Knoxville2. Utopian Divorce: El descasamentero by Salas Barbadillo Tania de Miguel Magro, West Virginia University3. The Voice of the Voiceless: Toward Equality and Social Justice in Sor Juana’s El mártir del sacramento and El divino Narciso Francisco López-Martín, Denison University4. Staging Strikes, Depicting Merchants, and the Morisco Problem in Valencia Melissa Figueroa, Ohio University5. Notes on an Ethics of Theatricality in Cervantes: El gallardo español and La Numancia Moisés Castillo, University of Kentucky6. Using Shame and Guilt to Impose Social Injustice in Ana Caro’s El Conde Partinuplés Jaclyn Cohen-Steinberg, University of Southern CaliforniaPart II: Adaptations7. A Social Justice Framing of the Comedia: EFE TRES Teatro’s El príncipe ynocente Adaptation Erin Alice Cowling, MacEwan University 8. Systemic Oppression in Morfeo Teatro’s Adaptation and Production of El coloquio de los perrosGlenda Y. Nieto-Cuebas, Ohio Wesleyan University9. El Trato de Argel and the Immigrant Crisis Mina Garcia, Elon University 10. Chirinos and Chanfalla Go to America: Social Justice in Adaptations of El retablo de las maravillasCharles Patterson, Western Washington University11. Social Networks, Social Justice, and the People’s Right to the Golden Age Canon: The SGAE or the comedia Villain of the Digital Age? Elena García Martín, North Central CollegePart III: InterviewsBen Gunter, Dramaturg and Director, Theater with a Mission, Mission San Luis, Tallahassee, Florida Harley Erdman, Professor, Dramaturg, Adaptor, and Translator of Early Modern Theater and Gina Kaufmann, Associate Professor, Director, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Sandra Arpa and Paula Rodríguez, Founders, Actresses, and Directors, Teatro Inverso, SpainFernando Villa Proal and Allan Flores, Founders and Directors, EFE TRES Teatro, Mexico CityIan Borden, Associate Professor of Theater Studies, Johnny Carson School of Theater and Film, University of NebraskaNatalia Menéndez, Former Director, Almagro International Classical Theater Festival, Spain

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