Spanish Golden Age drama has resurfaced in recent years, however scholarly analysis has not kept pace with its popularity. This book problematizes and analyzes the approaches to staging reconstruction taken over the past few decades, including historical, semiotic, anthropological, cultural, structural, cognitive and phenomenological methods.

Autorentext
Laura Vidler is Professor of Spanish and Chair of Modern Languages and Linguistics at the University of South Dakota, USA

Inhalt
Introduction: Critical Theory and the Reconstruction of Early Modern Performance 1. Revisiting Comedia Reconstruction in a Revisionist Performance Environment 2. The Habitus of Corral Scenic Space 3. (Re)Placing the Corral Body 4. Staging the Object 5. Women/Objects on the Modern and Early Modern Stage: Two Exceptional Case Studies 6. Adaptation, Translation, and the Relevance of Classical Theatrical Performance 7. Theory Performance