WORKS ABOUT CONTEMPORARY SPANISH THEATRE
[See also separate listings for playwrights featured on home page and, at bottom of vita page, individual playwrights and items published in Estreno and Western European Stages, as well as books and editions cited at top of this vita page.]
Chapters in books:
"El (meta)teatralismo de los nuevos
realistas." Diez años de cine, cultura y literatura
(1975-1985). Ed. Samuel Amell &
Salvador García Castañeda. Madrid:
Editorial Playor, 1988. 125-131.
"Plays of Conscience and Consciousness: Psychological Drama in
Contemporary Spain." In The
Contemporary Spanish Theater. A Collection of Criticial
Essays. Ed. Martha T. Halsey and Phyllis Zatlin. Lanham MD, New
York and London: University Press of America, 1988. 63-78.
"Spain" (general essay and individual entries).
Cambridge Guide to World Theatre, ed. Martin Banham. Rev. ed.
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
"Beyond Lorca." With Martha T. Halsey. Contemporary
Theatre Review (London). Special volume on Spanish Theatre
1920-1995, ed. Maria Delgado. 7.2 (1998): 61-80.
"Theater and Culture, 1939-1995." Cambridge
Companion to Modern Spanish Culture. Ed. David Gies.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 222-36.
"Pero... ¿hubo alguna vez once mil directoras?" Un
escenario propio/ A Stage of
Their Own. Ed.
Kirsten Nigro and Phyllis Zatlin. Ottawa: Girol, 1998. 51-64.
"Alfonso Sastre."
Censorship. A World Encyclopedia. Ed. Derek Jones. Four vols.
London & Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2001. IV: 2144-46.
"Cachorros de negro
mirar, de
Paloma Pedrero, y El traductor de Blumemberg, de Juan Mayorga: Dos acercamientos al
neonazismo." Teatro y sociedad en la España actual, ed. Wilfried Floeck
and María Francisca Vilches de Frutos. Madrid: Iberoamericana; Frankfurt
am Main: Vervuert Verlag, 2004. 175-86.
"Dificultades planteadas por la intertextualidad: El caso de la
traducción teatral." Traducción e
interculturalidad. Actas de la conferencia internacional
"Traducción e intercambio cultural en la época de la
globalización, mayo de 2006, Universidad de Barcelona. Ed.
Assumpty Camps & Lew Zybatow.
Frankfurt em Main: Peter Lang, 2008. 313-22.
Articles in Scholarly Journals:
"Fantasy and Lunacy in the Contemporary Spanish Theater." Kentucky
Foreign Language Quarterly, Supplement l3 (l967): 41-51.
"Macabre Humor in the Contemporary Spanish Theater."
Romance Notes 9(l968): 201-05.
"Incongruous Humor in the Contemporary Spanish Theater." Modern
Drama ll(l968): 82-86.
"Feminine Roles and Attitudes Toward Marriage in the Comedies of
Miguel Mihura." Romance Notes 14(1973):
445-49.
"Theatre in Madrid: The Difficult Transition to Democracy." Theatre
Journal 32(l980): 459-74.
"Balloons as Symbol in Contemporary Spanish Theater." Crítica Hispánica
2.2(l980): 109-23.
"Expressionism in the Contemporary Spanish Theater." Modern Drama 26.3(l983): 555-69.
"Mitos machadianos en la escena: La Lola y Juan de Zúniga." Boletín de la
Institución Fernán González 200 (l983: released l986): 81-86.
Review Essay: Feminist perspectives on selected contemporary
Spanish plays. the minnesota review
26 (Spring l986): 134-138.
"Homosexuality on the Spanish Stage: Barometer of Social
Change." España Contemporánea 1.2 (1988): 7-20.
"Martínez Mediero, Gala, and the Demythification of Spanish History."
Modern Language Studies 16.4 (1986): 3-8.
"Women Directors in Spain: Josefina Molina." Women
and Performance 5 (l986): 52-58.
"López Rubio and the Well-Made-Metaplay." Modern
Drama 32.4 (1989): 512-520.
"Premios Nacionales
de Teatro 1985: Sastre and Alonso de Santos." Studies
in Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures. Ed. Fidel
López Criado. Madrid: Ediciones
Orígenes, 1988. 49-56.
"Two-Character Plays as `Teatro íntimo':
Examples from Díaz, Junyent and Salom." España
Contemporánea 4.1 (1991): 97-102.
"Metatheatricalism and the Twentieth
Century Spanish Stage." Anales
de la Literatura Española Contemporánea
17.1-3 (1992): 55-74.
"Ekphrastic Theatre and the Contemporary Spanish Stage."
Journal of Interdisciplinary Literary Studies/Cuadernos Interdisciplinarios de Estudios
Literarios. 2.2
(1990): 201-213.
"The Return of the Prodigal: The Theatre of Gómez-Arcos." Hispanic Journal 16.1
(1995): 55-63.
"Another Battle in the Theatrical War Against Drugs: Onetti's Madre Caballo." ALEC 28.2 (2003): 115-25.
"Desde La mirada del hombre oscuro a Rey
negro: Ignacio del Moral y el tema del racismo." España Contemporánea
16.2 (2003-released 2005): 95-104.
"Spanish Playwrights Without Borders: Examples from Mayorga, Muñoz de Mesa, and Araujo." ALEC 40.2 (2015): 305/795-325/817.
Book reviews:
Marion P. Holt. The Contemporary Spanish Theater
(1949-1972). Modern Language Journal 61
(1977): 70-71.
Douglass R. McKay. Enrique Jardiel
Poncela. Modern Drama 20 (1977): 431-32.
Douglass R. McKay. Miguel Mihura. Hispania 6l(l978): 569.
John Lyon. The Theatre of Valle-Inclán.
Theatre Journal 37.l (l985): l33.
Felicia Hardison Londré.
Federico Garcia Lorca. Theatre History Studies 5 (l985): 123-124.
Gwynne Edwards. Dramatists in Perspective: Spanish Theatre
in the Twentieth Century. Theatre Journal 38.3 (1986): 386-387.
Hilda F. Cramsie. Teatro y censura en la España
franquista: Sastre, Muñiz y Ruibal. Hispania 69.4 (1986): 876-877.
Klaus Pörtl, ed. Reflexiones
sobre el Nuevo Teatro Español. Hispanic Review 54.4 (1987): 553-54.
Juan Emilio Aragonés. Veinte años de teatro
español (1969-1980). Hispanic Review 56.4 (1988):520-21.
Domingo Miras. La venta del ahorcado. José
Martín Elizondo. Picasso, reino milenario. España Contemporánea
2.3 (1989): 152-56.
Diego, Fernando de. El teatro de Alberti. Letras
Peninsulares 2.2 (1989): 273-74.
Martha Halsey. From Dictatorship to Democracy: the
recent plays of Buero Vallejo. Hispanic Review
64 (1996): 100-102.
Robert Lima. Dark Prisms. Occultism in Hispanic Drama. Hispanic Review 64 (1996): 79-80.
Victor Dixon & David
Johnston, eds. El teatro de Buero Vallejo: homenaje del hispanismo
británcio e irlandés. Hispanic
Review 66 (1998): 365-67.
Anne Witte. Guilding the Plot.
Politics and Feminism in the Work of Women Playwrights from Spain and
Argentina, 1960-1990. Revista de Estudios
Hispánicos, forthcoming.
David George and John London, eds. Contemporary Catalan
Theatre. Contemporary Theatre Review 7.3 (1998): 119-120
María Francisca Vilches and Dru
Dougherty. La
escena madrileña entre 1926 y 1931: Un lustro de transición.
Hispania 81
(1998): 317-18.
Emilio de Miguel Martínez. El teatro de Miguel
Mihura. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 32 (1998): 649-50.
Sharon G. Feldman. Allegories of Dissent. The
Theater of Agustín Gómez-Arcos. Gestos 28
(1999): 197-99.
Víctor García Ruiz. Continuidad y ruptura en
el teatro español de la posguerra. Gestos. 16.31 (2001):
210-12.
Óscar Cornago Bernal. Discurso teórico y
puesta en escena en los años sesenta: La encrucijada de los
"realismos." Bulletin of Hispanic Studies.
80.2 (2003): 260-61.
María M. Delgado. 'Other' Spanish theatres: erasure
and Inscription on the Twentieth-Century Spanish Stage. Modern Language Review
99.4 (2004): 1075-76.
Candyce Leonard and Iride Lamartina-Lens, eds. Testimonios del teatro español:
1950-2000.
Tomo I. Letras
Peninsulares 16.3 (Fall/Winter 2003-04): 932-34. Released
2006.
Play
reviews:
Death Thrust by Alfonso Sastre.
Colgate University. El Público
77 (March-April 1990): 123-24.
The Foundation by Buero-Vallejo.
Theatre for a New City, New York. El Público
77 (March-April 1990): 124-25.
Notes/prologues:
"More on Parody in Valle-Inclán."
Romance Notes l5(l974): 246-47.
Dictionary of Literature of the Iberian Peninsula, ed.
Germán Bleiberg, Maureen Ihrie, and Janet
Pérez. Two volumes. Westport CN & London: Greenwood Press, 1993.
"Contemporary Spanish theater" (431-440).
International Dictionary of the Theatre, ed. Mark Hawkins-Dady. Chicago and London: St James Press. Plays. 1992. Bohemian
Lights (423-424); The Bonds of Interest
(77); Authors. 1994. Sastre (846-849); Valle-Inclán (990-992).
"Alfonso Sastre: el
largo camino desde la marginación hasta la integración." Ciudadanía: Aproximaciones y
definiciones. Ed. Marta López-Luaces y Alicia Cipria. Montclair
State University: Literal Books, 1999 (released 2001): 127-36.
A note on Scarred by the Wind by Juan
Carlos Rubio, in Stages of Desire, Estreno Plays 39 (2016): 7-8.
Foreword to The History of
the Performance of American Drama in Spain 1912-1977
Theatre as a Weapon Against Political
Authoritarianism by: Ramon
Espejo Romero. Pittsburgh: Mellon, 2017.
Prologue to Páginas de New Harmony/Pages from New
Harmony, ed. Raúl Hernandez
Garrido, 2021.”Un interludio de armonía/ An Interlude of
Harmony”, pp. 6-10.
Proemio to El legado de Martha T. Halsey.
Intermedio a “La memoria y la conciencia,” ed. Raúl
Hernández Garrido. Ovejas Muertas, Jan. 10, 2021.
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