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Con mucho placer se anuncia el siguiente libro de los muy amables colegas Susan Paun de García <[log in to unmask]> y Donald R. Larson <[log in to unmask]> (!favor de felicitarlos!):

The Comedia in English. Translation and Performance. Eds. Susan Paun de García y Donald R. Larson. Colección Támesis: Serie A: Monografías, 261. Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2008. 296 pp. ISBN: 978-1-85566-169-1. 50 GBP. 95 USD. Internet: < http://www.boydell.co.uk/www.tamesisbooks.com/>.

Índice;

PREFACE: v-xiii.
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS: xv-xviii.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: xix.
INTRODUCTION:

Susan Paun de García and Donald R. Larson. “The Comedia in English: An Overview of Translation and Performance.” 1-33.

TRANSLATION AND ADAPTING THE COMEDIA:

Dakin Matthews. “Translating Comedias into English Verse for Modern Audiences.” 37-53.
Victor Dixon. “Translating the Polymetric Comedia for Performance [with Special Reference to Lope de Vega's Sonnets].” 54-65.
David Johnston. “Lope de Vega in English: The Historicised Imagination.” 66-82.
Catherine Larson. “Found in Translation: María de Zaya's Friendship Betrayed and the English-Speaking Stage.” 83-94.
Dawn L. Smith. “Transformation and Fluidity in the Translation of Classical Texts for Performance: The Case of Cervantes’s Entremeses.” 95-107.
Ben Gunter. “Translation as Relocation.” 108-24.

DIRECTING AND CONTEXTUALIZING THE COMEDIA:

Michael Halberstam. “Rehearsing Spite for Spite.” 127-139.
Anne McNaughton. “Directing Don Juan, The Trickster of Seville.” 140-52.
Isaac Benabu. “Directing the Comedia: Notes on a Process.” 153-63.
Jonathan Thacker. “Tirso's Tamar Untamed: A Lesson of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Production.” 164-76.
Catherine M. Boyle. “The Loss of Context and the Traps of Gender in Sor Juana’s Los empeños de una casa/House of Desires.” 177-86.

VIEWING AND REVIEWING THE COMEDIA:

James A. Parr. “Tirso's Burlador de Sevilla as Playtext in English.” 189-201.
A. Robert Lauer. “Anne McNaughton's Don Juan: A Rogue for All Seasons.” 202-13.
Susan L. Fischer. “Aspectual, Performative, and ‘Foreign’ Lope/Shakespeare: Staging Capulets & Montagues and Peribáñez in English and Romeo and Juliet in ‘Sicilian.’” 214-28.
Sharon D Voros. “Zayas's Comic Sense: The First Performance in English of La traición en la amistad.” 229-39.
Barbara Mujica. “María de Zaya's Friendship Betrayed à la Hollywood: Translation, Transculturation, and Production.” 240-53.

WORKS CITED. 255-76.
INDEX. 277-95.

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