The first comprehensive study of Tirso de Molina and his work in English

The first comprehensive study of Tirso de Molina and his work in English

Tirso de Molina (c.1583-c.1648) may not have writtenEl Burlador de Sevilla, but the works of this prolific author, one of the three pillars of Golden Age Spanish theatre, are notable for their erudition, complex characters, and wit. Informed by a multidisciplinary critical perspective, this volume sets Tirso's plays and prose in their social, historical, literary, and cultural contexts. Contributors from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Spain offer a state of the art in current scholarship, considering such topics as gender, identity, spatiality, material culture, and creative performativity, among others. The first volume in English to provide a richly detailed overview of Tirso's life and workTirso de Molina: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Twenty-First Century grounds the reader in canonical theories while suggesting new approaches, attuned to contemporary interests, to his legacy.

INTRODUCTION: Reassessing Tirso for a Twenty-First-Century Audience - Esther Fernández

PART I. A WORLDLY FRIAR

1. Aligning Contradictions: Tirso de Molina's Life and Works - Esther Fernández

2. A Text with No Name? The Rise and Fall of Tirso's Attribution ofEl burlador de Sevilla -Alejandro García-Reidy

3. Prose Fiction and Authorial Self-Fashioning:Los cigarrales de Toledo andDeleitar aprovechando - Christopher B. Weimer

4. The Religious Theater of Fray Gabriel Téllez - Alejandra Juno Rodríguez Villar

PART II. ANTINORMATIVE IDENTITIES

5. Melancholy Subjects: Pathological Love in the Plays of Tirso de Molina - Emmy Herland

6. "Mozo soy y mozo fuiste": Early Modern Conceptions of Age and Masculinity inEl burlador de Sevilla - José R. Cartagena-Calderón

7. All about the Mother inLessons to the Wise - Judith Caballero

8. To Be and Not to Be: Iterations of Disguise in the Theater of Tirso de Molina - Robert L. Turner III

9. Dressing the Part: Costuming and Material Culture in Tirso de Molina
Emily C. Tobey

PART III. SOUNDSCAPES AND LANDSCAPES

10. Tirso de Molina: A Musical Meeting of the Minds - Ivy Howell Walters

11. The Figurative Geography of Natural Landscapes in Tirso de Molina - Harrison Meadows

12. Tirso de Molina, Encounters with the New World - Gladys Robalino

13. Tirso Goes Underground - Antonio Guijarro-Donadiós

14. The Impossible Lockdown: Tirso de Molina's Lessons in Domesticity - Noelia S. Cirnigliaro

PART IV. UNCONVENTIONAL AFTERLIVES

15. Staging Tirso de Molina in Spain and England (1986- ): Ingenuity or Aberration? - Susan L. Fischer

16. Tirso de Molina in English: Translation for Performance - Kathleen Jeffs

17. Tirso de Molina on Stage: Comedy, Costumes, Chameleons - Harley Erdman

18 . Performing Gender on the English-Language Stage: Tirso's Queer Characters - Sarah Grunnah

19. Dismantling Myths and Repositioning the Other: Tirso de Molina for the 21st Century Classroom - Erin A. Cowling and Glenda Y. Nieto-Cuebas

20. Tirso de Molina's Critical Panorama (2010-2021) - Ignacio Arellano Ayuso