Women's Somatic Training in Early Modern Spanish Theater

ISBN-13: 9780367881993 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 158 str.

Elizabeth Marie Cruz Petersen

Opis

Women's Somatic Training in Early Modern Spanish Theater is the first full-length, in-depth study of female actors in seventeenth-century Spain. Elizabeth Marie Cruz Petersen examines examples of comedias from playwrights such as Lope de Vega, Luis Vélez de Guevara, Tirso de Molina, and Ana Caro, historical documents, and treatises to demonstrate t

Spis treści

Introduction

Chapter 1: Theoretical Models: Somaesthetics and Arte Nuevo

Chapter 2: The Corral’s Contribution to Somatic Experience

Chapter 3: Sociopolitics of the Spanish Woman Actor: Building Character

Chapter 4: Building a Character for the 17^th Century Spanish Stage

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O autorze

Elizabeth Marie Cruz Petersen is an Adjunct Professor at Florida Atlantic University, USA.