{"title":"Calderón de la Barca by Fausta Antonucci (review)","authors":"E. Nicholson","doi":"10.1353/boc.2021.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/boc.2021.0024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42292,"journal":{"name":"BULLETIN OF THE COMEDIANTES","volume":"73 1","pages":"79 - 82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45307654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social Justice in Spanish Golden Age Theatre ed. by Erin Alice Cowling et al (review)","authors":"M. Boyle","doi":"10.1353/boc.2021.0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/boc.2021.0028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42292,"journal":{"name":"BULLETIN OF THE COMEDIANTES","volume":"73 1","pages":"95 - 97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46467013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. La resistencia del deseo by Francisco Ramírez Santa Cruz (review)","authors":"Stephanie Kirk","doi":"10.1353/boc.2021.0036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/boc.2021.0036","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42292,"journal":{"name":"BULLETIN OF THE COMEDIANTES","volume":"73 1","pages":"131 - 133"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44984921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Black but Human’: Slavery and Visual Art in Hapsburg Spain, 1480–1700 by Carmen Fracchia (review)","authors":"Tanya J. Tiffany","doi":"10.1353/boc.2021.0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/boc.2021.0030","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42292,"journal":{"name":"BULLETIN OF THE COMEDIANTES","volume":"73 1","pages":"103 - 106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41882601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Barlaán y Josafat by Lope de Vega (review)","authors":"juanma berbel","doi":"10.1353/boc.2021.0039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/boc.2021.0039","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42292,"journal":{"name":"BULLETIN OF THE COMEDIANTES","volume":"73 1","pages":"143 - 145"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43210517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prologue","authors":"Julia C. Hernández","doi":"10.1353/boc.2021.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/boc.2021.0020","url":null,"abstract":"<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span>\u0000<p> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> Prologue <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Julia C. Hernández </li> </ul> <p>The cover of the present volume returns to the theme of Federico García Lorca and La Barraca explored in volume 73, number 1. We also continue our reflections on the student troupe’s legacy ninety years after it first set forth to travel the Spanish countryside, one of the Second Republic’s state-sponsored <em>misiones pedógicas</em> designed to bring the theater of the Golden Age to contemporary rural audiences. Featured here is Lorca’s own sketch of another type of itinerant trickster drawn from La Barraca’s repertoire: the vagabond <em>estudiante</em> of Cervantes’s <em>La cueva de Salamanca</em>, who proves himself something of a skilled actor in staging a <em>scene</em> of his own design to sing for his supper (fig. 1). The 1932 re-envisioning of Cervantes’s student <em>performer</em>, refracted through the Lorquian lens and brought to life by La Barraca’s own student-actors, invites us to consider how the <em>misiones pedagógicas</em> of previous generations continue to inform our own teaching and research practices today.</p> <p><em>La cueva de Salamanca</em>, performed as part of a trio of Cervantine entremeses alongside <em>La guarda cuidadosa</em> and <em>Los dos habladores</em>, formed an essential part of La Barraca’s programing from its first sally to Burgo de Osma in the summer of 1932.<sup>1</sup> Lorca saw the entremeses as central to the company’s <em>misión pedagógica</em>, accessible in their themes, vivid in their language, direct in their structures.<sup>2</sup> While intimately involved in all stages of their production, Lorca took a particular interest in the details of <em>La cueva</em>’s costumes, sketching the designs for the four principal characters, including the Salamancan visitor, in his own hand (figs. 1–4).<sup>3</sup></p> <p>The resulting images are quintessential La Barraca: in the case of the student, the bright colors of his garb, designated by Lorca as “naranja” and “encarnada” in the sketch’s upper right-hand corner, suggest the vanguardist mise-èn-scene Lorca saw as essential to La Barraca’s mission to bring the public the most cutting edge of theater arts (see fig. 1 and cover); to Plaza Chillon’s eye they are “explosivos” and “picassianos,” reminiscent of Lorca’s design collaboration with Dalí for <em>Mariana Pineda</em> (201–02).<sup>4</sup> <strong>[End Page 5]</strong></p> <p>The spoon-adorned bicorne atop the student’s head, however, evokes a more ancient visual tradition: the iconography of the wandering Salamancan student; roving and hungry, the stock character of the Medieval <em>sopista</em> would arrive, cutlery stowed in hat, to sing for their supper. Surviving as the symbol of Spain’s student choirs today—known as the <em>tuna universitaria</em>—the be-spooned hat, then as now, signals an act of perfo","PeriodicalId":42292,"journal":{"name":"BULLETIN OF THE COMEDIANTES","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50167822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pornographic Sensibilities: Imagining Sex and the Visceral in Premodern and Early Modern Spanish Cultural Production ed. by Nicholas R. Jones and Chad Leahy (review)","authors":"M. Verástegui","doi":"10.1353/boc.2021.0034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/boc.2021.0034","url":null,"abstract":"The creaTion of a new field of inquiry may often constitute the academic equivalent of extreme sports, and that is certainly the case when it takes place in the arena of medieval and early modern Hispanic Studies. The mere act of not specifying the exact rules of that intersection within such broad an area is still met in some circles with a resistance that is not surprising given the traditionally strict divisions that have dominated the Hispanic humanities. Hispanic literature is one of the disciplines where tradition has wielded greater power, making novel approaches seem more transgressive than they would probably appear in other disciplines. In this context, what editors Nicholas R. Jones and Chad Leahy propose in Pornographic Sensibilities falls beyond the transgressive into the downright subversive, and it does so in the best possible way. The editors propose a dialogue between medieval and early modern Hispanic Studies and Porn Studies as a productive critical approach to a vast corpus of writings where the body and its most intimate aspects feature in openly graphic and uninhibited ways. Although sex encompasses most of these representations, more extreme manifestations like disease and violence complete the continuum of problematic and uncomfortable subject matter that has challenged those who have tried to present the canon of Hispanic cultural production as aseptic and respectable. These are cultural products that resist being neatly packaged into the usual categories and critical molds required to fit the rigid canonical standards of traditional publication, both academic and commercial. Therein lies the value of this volume, in the opening of an interdisciplinary space where, instead of being classified and described, these texts and other cultural artifacts become party to a larger conversation that touches on some of the most current and interesting lines of intellectual inquiry across a wide variety of disciplines.","PeriodicalId":42292,"journal":{"name":"BULLETIN OF THE COMEDIANTES","volume":"73 1","pages":"121 - 125"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42935607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“De tan sangriento marido / ¿qué menos puedo esperar?”: The Tragic Pose and Blithe Spirit of Lope de Vega’s La fuerza lastimosa","authors":"Dian Fox","doi":"10.1353/boc.2021.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/boc.2021.0021","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Lope de Vega’s comedia La fuerza lastimosa met with great success in the seventeenth century, in Spain and in adaptations abroad. This article explores reasons for its popularity then and argues for renewed appreciation now. Fine lyrical passages, grim foreshadowing, and the masterful design of its first act, with an escalating crisis well into the second, establish a stunning tragic dilemma. Steeped in cultural tradition and referencing historical events, from the romancero to the Spanish Armada and Lope’s own biography, La fuerza then veers away from tragedy, with progressively more genial twists and turns. Among its fascinations are mothers and children, attempted wife-murder, cross-dressing in both directions, a perpetually baffled king, and more-than-usual abuse of the unity of time, all culminating in an exuberantly overstuffed and crowd-pleasing conclusion.","PeriodicalId":42292,"journal":{"name":"BULLETIN OF THE COMEDIANTES","volume":"73 1","pages":"13 - 29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45419500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Las hijas de Felipe: un podcast que reivindica la colaboración y la divulgación para las humanidades del siglo XXI","authors":"Ana Carolina Garriga, Carmen Urbita","doi":"10.1353/boc.2021.0041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/boc.2021.0041","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Las hijas de Felipe, a podcast devoted to early modern gossip, baroque dramas, and forgotten lives from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, launched in 2020. With the insights gained after publishing eighteen episodes and achieving a loyal and diverse audience, we contemplate how the podcast format can foment new kinds of scholarly collaborations, inspire more creative academic work, and expand the public impact of humanities research.","PeriodicalId":42292,"journal":{"name":"BULLETIN OF THE COMEDIANTES","volume":"73 1","pages":"153 - 159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41700860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"El pintor de su deshonra by Pedro Calderón de la Barca (review)","authors":"N. F. Rodríguez","doi":"10.1353/boc.2021.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/boc.2021.0026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42292,"journal":{"name":"BULLETIN OF THE COMEDIANTES","volume":"73 1","pages":"87 - 90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43290058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}