Daring adaptations, creative failures and experimental performances in Iberian theatre. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by María Chouza-Calo, Esther Fernández, Jonathan Thacker.
• Editors: Chouza-Calo, María; Fernández, Esther, 1975-; Thacker, Jonathan
• Contents: Introduction María del Pilar Chouza-Calo, Esther Fernández, Jonathan Thacker Part I. Playing Upon Gender Chapter 1: Snares of Safety: Guillén de Castro's La fuerza de la costumbre (1610-1615), The Force of Habit (2019) in Production Kathleen Jeffs Chapter 2: Unruly Mujeres: Adapting Women's Rebellious Voices on the Modern Stage Sarah Grunnah Chapter 3: Electra (1910): Daring Memories of Galdós's Most Polemic Success Esther Fernández and Cristina Martínez-Carazo Chapter 4: The 'Pleasure' of Wife-Murder Drama: The Aesthetics of Gender-Based Violence in Palabras encadenadas Sonia Pérez Villanueva Part II. Daring Acts Chapter 5: Theatricality in a 'sacred drama, not to be represented': the Spanish 1700s' Oratorio Rosa Sanz Hermida Chapter 6: On Action and Discovery and What to Do with Them in Translation and Performance Catherine Boyle Chapter 7: Habit, Suggestion, and Imitation in fin-de-siècle Spanish Theatre Juan Menchero Chapter 8: Fuegoártico: A Beautiful Defeat. Jeremy James and the Creation of an Ensemble Methodology in Madrid, 2014 Simon Breden Chapter 9: Adapting Bolaño's 2666 for the Stage: Rigola (2007), Falls (2016), and Gosselin (2016) Anton Pujol Part III. Transcultural Negotiations Chapter 10: Translating Marginalities: Staging Linguistic Diversity in the Comedia Laura Muñoz Chapter 11: The Merry Valencian Widow: Negotiating the Russian Lopean Canon in the Late Twentieth Century Veronika Ryjik Chapter 12: From Golden Age to Civil War: Stages of Spain in Yugoslavia Alma Prelec Chapter 13: From the Warsaw Ghetto to Messianic Time: Polis and Memory in Juan Mayorga's El cartógrafo. Varsovia, 1: 400.000 Juan Caamaño Chapter 14: Rewriting Race: The Angels in America Scandal and New Representations of Blackness in Contemporary Catalan Drama Isaias Fanlo Chapter 15: Testing the Audience's Judgement: Please, Continue (Hamlet) by Roger Bernat and Yan Duyvendak David Rodríguez-Solás Biographies.
• Publisher Details: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (296 pages)
• Subjects: 792.0946; Theater -- Iberian Peninsula -- History; Experimental theater -- Iberian Peninsula -- History; Stage adaptations
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781802076387
• Related ISBNs: 9781802078015
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