Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword
Fernando Villa Proal, EFE TRES Teatro

Introduction

Part I: Readings of Comedias

1. The Poetics of Tragedy and Justice in Vélez de Guevara’s La serrana de la Vera
Harrison Meadows, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

2. Utopian Divorce: El descasamentero by Salas Barbadillo
Tania de Miguel Magro, West Virginia University

3. 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 University

4. Staging Strikes, Depicting Merchants, and the Morisco Problem in Valencia
Melissa Figueroa, Ohio University

5. Notes on an Ethics of Theatricality in Cervantes: El gallardo español and La Numancia
Moisés Castillo, University of Kentucky

6. Using Shame and Guilt to Impose Social Injustice in Ana Caro’s El Conde Partinuplés
Jaclyn Cohen-Steinberg, University of Southern California

Part II: Adaptations

7. 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 perros
Glenda Y. Nieto-Cuebas, Ohio Wesleyan University

9. 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 maravillas
Charles Patterson, Western Washington University

11. 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 College

Part III: Interviews

Ben 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, Spain

Fernando Villa Proal and Allan Flores, Founders and Directors, EFE TRES Teatro, Mexico City

Ian Borden, Associate Professor of Theater Studies, Johnny Carson School of Theater and Film, University of Nebraska

Natalia Menéndez, Former Director, Almagro International Classical Theater Festival, Spain

About the Author

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

Reviews

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