Rural revisions of Golden Age drama : performance of history, production of space / Elena García-Martín.

Author
García-Martín, Elena [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Lewisburg [Pennsylvania] : Bucknell University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : Copublished by the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2017]
  • ©2017
Description
xxiv, 189 pages ; 24 cm

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    This work focuses on rural community versions of Spanish Early Modern Theatre and deals with cultural heritage and the contemporary impact of Golden Age theatre on local rural communities. To this end, I examine the burgeoning of annual rural Golden Age theatre festivals that generate site-centered, non-professional productions of the plays, and revisit the conflict between tradition and innovation, between popular and high culture between authority of literary heritage and the people's right to the canon. The selection of Early Modern plays set in actual Spanish communities - Fuenteovejuna, El Alcalde de Zalamea, Numancia and Los tres blasones de España - renders an overview of the effect of these important works on their respective communities and focuses on the theatrical festivals as peripheral, subaltern, hybrid cultural phenomena. I take into consideration not only traditional and significant studies on these four renowned plays, but recent theories on staging, performance and popular reception and agency. -- From publisher's website.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction: performances of Golden Age theatre at the margins: shaping local
    • Identities and cultural traditions
    • Local readings and cultural politics of space in Fuenteovejuna
    • The ritual in everyday practices: participatory culture and El Alcalde de Zalamea
    • Unity of place, the true protagonist: Calahorra in Los tres blasones de España
    • Numancia: from oral tradition to historical 'truth'
    • Conclusion: Golden age theatre of resistance.
    ISBN
    • 9781611488333 ((hardcover : alkaline paper))
    • 1611488338 ((hardcover : alkaline paper))
    LCCN
    2017012854
    OCLC
    973920599
    Other standard number
    • 40027281326
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