This volume presents foundational and representative essays of the last half century on theatre performance practice during the period 1580 to 1750. Un actor se prepara: un comediante del Siglo de Oro ante un texto (El castigo sin venganza)', in Diez Borque, ed., Actor y técnica de representación del teatro clásico español (London: Tamesis, 1989), pp. Categories: Literary Criticism A Companion to Golden Age Theatre Unique in the field of comedia studies, it approaches the topic from a performance perspective, using somaesthetics as a tool to explain how an artist's lived experiences and emotions unite in the interpretation of art, reconfiguring her 'self' via the transformation of habit.

Women's Somatic Training in Early Modern Spanish Theater is the first full-length, in-depth study of women actors in seventeenth-century Spain. Elizabeth Marie Cruz Petersen examines examples of comedias from playwrights such as Lope de Vega, Luis Vélez de Guevara, Tirso de Molina, and Ana Caro, historical documents, and treatises to demonstrate that the women of the stage transformed their bodies and their social and cultural environment in order to succeed in early modern Spanish theater. It provides today's reader not only another perspective to the performance aspect of early modern plays, but also a better understanding of how the woman of the theater succeeded in a highly scrutinized profession. “Gender Impersonation Onstage: Destroying or Maintaining the Minor of Gender .ĭrawing from early modern plays and treatises on the precepts and practices of the acting process, this study shows how the early modern Spanish actress subscribed to various somatic practices in an effort to prepare for a role. “Manuel Vallejo: un actor se prepara: un comediante del siglo de oro ante un texto (El castigo sin venganza).” Díez Borque Actor y técnica 55–74.

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