Contiendas en torno al canon

La obra de Jose Martí ha recibido en las últimas décadas numerosos acercamientos críticos desde puntos de vista muy diferentes, ya que nos encontramos ante el escritor cubano más cimpleto de todos los tiempos y el héroe indiscutible de la independencia de la Isla. Sin embargo, estos textos suelen a menudo analizar facetas muy conocidas de su personalidad o de su obra, que con frecuencia se convierten en lugares comunes relacionado con los temas de su poesía, su adscripción o no al modernismo hispanoamericano, sus aspiraciones revolucionarias o si idealismo práctico

This volume presents ten articles about the Hispanic theatre. It presents over more than 150 pages a range of studies that go from the end of the Middle Ages to the present day of the liturgical dramatization to the process of transforming a collection of poems into a play, from Argentina and Mexico to the Canary Islands and Majorca. It pays attention to certain works ("Davallament de la Creu", the comedies El villano en su rincón, La Varona castellana y El príncipe despeñado by Lope de Vega, the prologues by Antonio de Solís, the Ifigenia by Jovellanos, Nuevo género by Felipe...

Angelina's annoyance at having to take her little cousin Henry to the fair turns into friendship after a day filled with adventures and surprises.

A study of the relationship betwen court festivity and theatre in 16c Spain. Dr Ferrer Valls studies the relationship between court festivity and theatre in the sixteenth century, placing special emphasis on staging. She argues that throughout the reign of Philip II court spectacle perpetuates the complicated staging of traditional performances, but with greater emphasis on their dramatic aspects and on the use of music and song. In the first two decades of the seventeenth century, and above all in specific plays by Lope de Vega, court spectacles come to reflect also the influence of Italian...