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Authors: Laura R. Bass (Editor), Margaret R. Greer
ISBN-13: 9780873529945, ISBN-10: 0873529944
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Modern Language Association of America
Date Published: January 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Laura R. Bass

Book Synopsis

Now at ninety-three volumes, this popular MLA series addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to teaching the text. In these essays, experienced teachers discuss approaches and methods they have found effective in keeping classroom discussions lively.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Series
Preface to the Volume
Acknowledgments
Part 1Materials
Editions of Comedias
Anthologies in Spanish3
Individual Editions and Series in Spanish4
Bilingual Editions and Translations7
The Instructor's Library
Background Studies9
Critical and Scholarly Studies12
Journals and Series14
Aids to Teaching
Illustrated Books15
Films16
Internet Resources17
Part 2Approaches
Introduction23
The Past in the Present: Historical Frameworks and Visual Contexts
Communicating the Past29
Between Ideals and Pragmatism: Honor in Early Modern Spain39
A Woman Hunted, a City Besieged: Spanish Emblems and Italian Art in Fuenteovejuna45
Early Modern Geographies: Teaching Space in Tirso de Molina's Urban Plays53
Costume and the Comedia: Dressing Up El vergonzoso en palacio in the Classroom61
Teaching Golden Age Theater through Filmic Adaptations69
Language, Theory, and (Teaching) Philosophy
How to Do Things with Polimetria76
The Comedia and the Theoretical Imperative85
Unanswering the Question: A Course on Spanish Golden Age Plays by Women92
Toward an Understanding of Moral Philosophy and the Theme of Desengano in Calderon99
Theater History, Practice, and Comparative Contexts
Placing the Comedia in Performative Context107
On Teaching Non-Comedia Festive Drama of Early Modern Spain115
Reinventing Texts in a New (Historical) Context: Spanish Comedia and Shakespeare125
Comedia and Comedie134
Don Juan in Three Acts: Seduction across Time and Space143
Cross-Cultural Approaches
Lope de Vega and the Matter of America: Approaching the Comedia from a Transatlantic Perspective152
An Approach to Teaching Drama Written in Colonial Spanish America159
Staging Captivity: Cervantes's Barbary Plays166
Teaching Race and the Performances of Whiteness in El valiente negro en Flandes, by Andres de Claramente174
Teaching the Comedia to Nonmajors: Golden Age Drama in a Cultural Studies Context182
Embodied Pedagogies
Trials: Teaching the Spanish Baroque Comedia in the Twenty-First Century189
Mentoring Environments and Golden Age Theater Production198
New Technologies
The Digital Comedia: Teaching Golden Age Theater with New and Emerging Technologies206
The Closest Reading: Creating Annotated Online Editions214
Glossary of Key Terms221
Notes on Contributors225
Survey Participants229
Works Cited231
Index of Plays269
Index of Playwrights273
Index of Names275

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