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Premiered in 1981, The Granny and the Heist (La estanquera de Vallecas) interweaves tense excitement, comic banter and moments of great tenderness in its examination of an area of Madrid equally ignored by Spain's nascent democracy as it had been under the Franco dictatorship. Contains a new critical introduction and language-teaching resources.

Madrid (Spain) --- Social life and customs --- Transition to democracy --- José Luis Alonso de Santos --- Theatre translation --- Spanish theatre

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The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender awarded this work the Prize for the Best Translated Edition of a Work on Women and Gender, 2018.Valerie Hegstrom and Catherine Larson have created an annotated new edition and first-ever translation of Ângela de Azevedo's vibrant comedy, El muerto disimulado / Presumed Dead, to promote the recuperation of early modern plays authored by women. The book contains a comprehensive introduction that describes Spanish theater in its Golden Age, what is known of the author's life and times, contemporary stagings, and an extensive analysis of the text.Although the playwright penned her work in Spanish, the Portuguese Azevedo set the action in Lisbon, creating in the process an abundance of multicultural allusions that enrich the text's baroque quality. The story unfolds as a cross between a jilted-lover scenario and a whodunit murder mystery. A woman laments her departed lover, a sister cross-dresses to avenge her murdered brother, a man duels with his cousin over lost honor, and before long, the dead man turns up as a ghost, or a bar maid, or a female peddler. Questions about identity abound in the witty El muerto disimulado / Presumed Dead. The transnational nature of this clever comedy complicates meanings, often producing bilingual wordplay that underscores the self-conscious, gender-bending, ludic character of the play and of theater in general. Azevedo highlights her ability to cross linguistic and geographic borders in the early modern period, as she simultaneously works within and offers a challenge to the dominant tradition of the Spanish Comedia.

Spanish drama (Comedy) --- History and criticism. --- performance --- gender and theatre --- El muerto disimulado --- murder mystery --- cross-dressing --- golden age --- early modern women playwrights --- Presumed Dead --- comedy --- Ângela de Azevedo --- spanish theatre --- Golden Age comedy --- Iberian drama --- portuguese --- game-playing

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A Companion to "Lope de Vega" brings together work by leading international scholars on the life and writing of Lope de Vega Carpio, the 'fenix de los ingenios', a 'monstruo de la naturaleza', as he was described by his rival, Miguel de Cervantes. Spain's foremost Golden Age playwright was in addition a major artist in prose and poetry, genres also covered by the Companion. The contributions evaluate current critical debates and issues in Lope de Vega studies, as well as providing new readings of key texts. The volume attempts to do justice to the variety, profusion and originality of Lope's output, and to outline the contours of his reputation as an artist in literary history, as well as firmly contextualising his life and work. The variety of critical perspectives reflects the liveliness of debate surrounding this enduringly popular figure whose drama has recently enjoyed a renaissance in theatres around the globe.

Vega Carpio, de, Lope Felix --- Authors, Spanish --- Vega, Lope de, --- Vega, Lope de Carpio, --- Carpio, Lope Félix de Vega, --- Vega y Carpio, Lope Félix de, --- Vega Karpio, Lope Phelix de, --- Burguillos, Tomé de, --- Vega Carpio, Lope Félix de, --- Karpio, Lope Phelix de Vega, --- De Vega, Lope, --- De Vega Carpio, Lope Félix, --- De Vega y Carpio, Lope Félix, --- De Vega Karpio, Lope Phelix, --- De Burguillos, Tomé, --- De Carpio Vega, Lope, --- Carpio Vega, Lope de, --- Ṿegah, Lopeh deh, --- וגה, לופה דה, --- Colonial Hegemony. --- Criollo Culture. --- Golden Age Dramatist. --- History. --- Literature. --- Lope de Vega. --- Playwright. --- Spanish Culture. --- Spanish Theatre. --- Theater.