Project MUSE®: Bulletin of the Comediantes - Latest Articles
https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/425
Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Bulletin of the Comediantes.daily12026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 1 (1949) through current issueLatest Articles: Bulletin of the ComediantesTWOProject MUSE®Bulletin of the Comediantes1944-09280007-5108Latest articles in Bulletin of the Comediantes. Feed provided by Project MUSE®A la sombra de El laurel de Apolo de Calderón de la Barca: Madrid y los orígenes de la zarzuela
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987407
<p></p>
DE UNOS AÑOS A ESTA PARTE, para quienes crecimos en Madrid, resulta difícil no pasear por sus calles más céntricas con la sensación de que la ciudad se ha convertido en un sucedáneo apenas reconocible de lo que en algún momento fue. Entre la nube de contaminación y los nuevos restaurantes, bares y cafeterías que nos agreden con sus precios desorbitados, parece que todas deambulamos por cada rincón de la ciudad con el pensamiento fatalista de que Madrid es ya un escenario de cartón piedra difícil de habitar.Hace unos días, de vuelta a Madrid tras unas semanas en Nueva York, me animé a visitar de nuevo la Galería de las Colecciones Reales, el magnífico museo inaugurado en 2023 por Patrimonio Nacional para exponer los
... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987423">Read More</a>
Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/425/image/coversmallA la sombra de El laurel de Apolo de Calderón de la Barca: Madrid y los orígenes de la zarzuela2026-04-08text/htmlen-USA la sombra de El laurel de Apolo de Calderón de la Barca: Madrid y los orígenes de la zarzuela2026-04-082026TWOProject MUSE®310502026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-04-08Catherine Larson: Del amistad enxemplo
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987408
<p></p>
CATHERINE LARSON (1950–2025), Professor Emerita of Spanish at Indiana University (Bloomington), died on 16 September 2025 from the effects of Alzheimer's. Cathy was a distinguished scholar who devoted her life to the study of Iberian and Spanish American theater, with a special emphasis on works authored by women.The biographical facts are straightforward: Cathy earned her BA in Education from the University of Missouri in 1972, followed by an MA in Spanish from the same institution in 1979 and a PhD in Spanish at the University of Kansas in 1982. Between her B.A. and M.A. studies she taught high school, arriving at graduate school with significant teaching experience and an unusual situation for a graduate student
... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987423">Read More</a>
Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/425/image/coversmallCatherine Larson: Del amistad enxemplo2026-04-08text/htmlen-USCatherine Larson: Del amistad enxemplo2026-04-082026TWOProject MUSE®111212026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-04-08At Their Word: Towards a Trans Reading of Cervantes's La gran sultana
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987409
<p></p>
SINCE THE 1990s, most scholars who have written about Cervantes's marvelous romantic comedy La gran Sultana (1615) have commented on the striking message of tolerance radiating from a script that, in Jean Canavaggio's words, "reveal[s] in spite of [its] nationalistic fervor a carefully shaded picture of relationships between Christians and infidels (273)."1 In the present article, I seek to take this shared assessment a step further. I start by proposing a reading of the play's seraglio subplot that departs from previous critical accounts by taking Lamberto at his word when he tells us that he is a trans man. The critical payoff of this trans reading of Lamberto is not only that it contributes to current efforts to
... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987423">Read More</a>
Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/425/image/coversmallAt Their Word: Towards a Trans Reading of Cervantes's La gran sultana2026-04-08text/htmlen-USAt Their Word: Towards a Trans Reading of Cervantes's La gran sultana2026-04-082026TWOProject MUSE®1110662026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-04-08From the Burlador to Bernardo to the Cid: Mocedades and Masculinity in Political Theory and Theatrical Practice
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987410
<p></p>
IN HIS SILVA DE VARIAS LECCIONES (1540), Pedro Mexía identifies seven ages of man, lingering on the third age, known as mocedad y crecimiento, as a special case. At this stage of maturity, Mexía explains, "comienza el hombre a ser hábil y poderoso para los deseos de Venus, dispuesto para haber hijos, inclinado a amores y mujeres, dase a cantares y juegos, vicios y comidas, y placeres y fiestas" (159). Such immoral behaviors, in Mexía's estimation, formed part of the typical maturity pattern of young men. Mexía was not alone in his concern over youthful misdeeds, or mocedades; these growing pains, both literal and figurative, preoccupied writers, politicians, the clergy, playwrights, and parents alike.1 From
... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987423">Read More</a>
Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/425/image/coversmallFrom the Burlador to Bernardo to the Cid: Mocedades and Masculinity in Political Theory and Theatrical Practice2026-04-08text/htmlen-USFrom the Burlador to Bernardo to the Cid: Mocedades and Masculinity in Political Theory and Theatrical Practice2026-04-082026TWOProject MUSE®1213262026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-04-08El encanto de ver y ser visto en El Arenal de Sevilla de Lope de Vega
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987411
<p></p>
EN EL SEGUNDO ACTO de El Arenal de Sevilla, Florelo anima a su señora Lucinda a levantar la mirada y posarla sobre las numerosas personas que deambulaban por el puerto sevillano. Más allá del espléndido panorama de barcos y navíos y de profusas mercancías locales y extranjeras, Lope de Vega concibió el Arenal de Sevilla como un lugar de encuentro entre viejos conocidos y entre extraños. Nos podemos imaginar a Lucinda, tras escuchar a su criado, buscando al hombre que ama entre el multitudinario público del corral de comedias, como si este se hallara realmente a orillas del río Guadalquivir. El consejo de Florelo, sin embargo, no tiene un único destinatario. Además de a su señora, alcanza a los cuantiosos
... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987423">Read More</a>
Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/425/image/coversmallEl encanto de ver y ser visto en El Arenal de Sevilla de Lope de Vega2026-04-08text/htmlen-USEl encanto de ver y ser visto en El Arenal de Sevilla de Lope de Vega2026-04-082026TWOProject MUSE®973252026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-04-08Divine Spectacle: Staging Noah’s Ark in
Baroque Seville
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987412
<p></p>
IN 1641–42, autor de comedias Antonio de Rueda (1600?–1662) and his company were working in Madrid (Historia Hispánica). They had spent the previous season performing at the Corral de la Montería in Seville, where they would return the following year (Pineda Novo 60–63). While he was in the capital, as Javier Rubiera and Alejandro García-Reidy hypothesize, Rueda probably purchased two comedias from a trio of collaborators, identified in the fashion of collaborative composition as "Tres Ingenios": Antonio Martínez de Meneses, Pedro Rosete Niño, and Jerónimo de Cancer. One of these plays, El mejor representante, San Ginés, according to Rubiera and García-Reidy, features metatheatrical references to Madrid within its
... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987423">Read More</a>
Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/425/image/coversmallDivine Spectacle: Staging Noah’s Ark in
Baroque Seville2026-04-08text/htmlen-USDivine Spectacle: Staging Noah’s Ark in
Baroque Seville2026-04-082026TWOProject MUSE®793482026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-04-08"La zarzuela se divierte… y aprende": Una conversación con Víctor Pagán sobre el arte nuevo de divulgar el teatro lírico para nuestros tiempos
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987413
<p></p>
"DONDE HAY UN TEXTO DE LOPE, hay una buena zarzuela", dice Víctor Pagán en la entrevista que sigue. Víctor lo sabe mejor que nadie. Nacido en Puerto Rico y doctorado en Filología Hispánica en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, lleva más de treinta años trabajando en la preparación de los programas del Teatro de la Zarzuela y más de veinte en el cargo de coordinador de los programas. Estos —cuyas dimensiones son las de un libro y que actualmente pueden descargarse en la web del teatro en formato PDF (https://teatrodelazarzuela.inaem.gob.es)— son auténticas joyas de historiografía teatral, de interés tanto para el público actual como para los futuros investigadores. Además de los datos particulares sobre cada una
... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987423">Read More</a>
Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/425/image/coversmall"La zarzuela se divierte… y aprende": Una conversación con Víctor Pagán sobre el arte nuevo de divulgar el teatro lírico para nuestros tiempos2026-04-08text/htmlen-US"La zarzuela se divierte… y aprende": Una conversación con Víctor Pagán sobre el arte nuevo de divulgar el teatro lírico para nuestros tiempos2026-04-082026TWOProject MUSE®366272026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-04-08TespaTrad: Base de datos de las traducciones del Teatro del Siglo de Oro
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987414
<p></p>
LA INGENTE LABOR DE RECUPERACIÓN del patrimonio teatral del Siglo de Oro ha recurrido, desde hace tiempo, a la creación de importantes herramientas digitales que organizan, detallan y ponen en relación las informaciones de forma ágil y provechosa. En cuanto a las obras, el macroanálisis de este corpus inmenso está siendo posible, lentamente, gracias a bases de datos como Artelope y Calderón Digital (Antonucci "Una nueva herramienta"), que se han convertido en referencia ineludible para tantas investigaciones.Si bien es verdad que aún queda mucho por hacer, y que la tendencia actual no parece privilegiar, en los equipos de investigación, la experimentación en el ámbito de las Humanidades Digitales, el camino está
... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987423">Read More</a>
Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/425/image/coversmallTespaTrad: Base de datos de las traducciones del Teatro del Siglo de Oro2026-04-08text/htmlen-USTespaTrad: Base de datos de las traducciones del Teatro del Siglo de Oro2026-04-082026TWOProject MUSE®509882026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-04-08Early Modern Women's Mobility, Authority, and Agency across the Spanish Empire ed. by Anne J. Cruz and Alejandra Franganillo Álvarez (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987415
<p></p>
LAS EDITORAS DE ESTE LIBRO han reunido once excelentes artículos que siguen las biografías de más de una decena de mujeres. Son artículos de investigación que, en su variedad, muestran realidades diversas y abren múltiples interrogantes, pero que se pueden leer asimismo como relatos de vidas apasionantes, casi como novelas de género: las peripecias por América de Inés Muñoz, de Isabel Barreto y de Catalina de Erauso se configuran como novelas de aventuras, lo mismo que el viaje de sor Jerónima de la Asunción y sus compañeras hasta Filipinas; la vida de Marie de Rohan y la de Anna Colonna se acercan a las novelas de intriga; la de Hortense Mancini se articula en torno a la sentimentalidad; las de la condesa de
... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987423">Read More</a>
Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/425/image/coversmallEarly Modern Women's Mobility, Authority, and Agency across the Spanish Empire ed. by Anne J. Cruz and Alejandra Franganillo Álvarez (review)2026-04-08text/htmlen-USEarly Modern Women's Mobility, Authority, and Agency across the Spanish Empire ed. by Anne J. Cruz and Alejandra Franganillo Álvarez (review)2026-04-082026TWOProject MUSE®210112026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-04-08Vínculos de sangre, parentescos manipulados y derechos familiares en Calderón ed. by Hanno Ehrlicher y Christian Grünnagel (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987416
<p></p>
EN LOS ÚLTIMOS AÑOS, los estudios calderonianos han prestado creciente atención a las complejas configuraciones familiares presentes en la dramaturgia del Siglo de Oro. El presente volumen nace a raíz del XIX Coloquio Anglogermano sobre Calderón, celebrado en Viena entre el 28 de septiembre y el 1 de octubre de 2021. Esta actividad, organizada por Wolfram Aichinger y Simon Kroll, buscaba crear un espacio para explorar el complejo y rico universo familiar calderoniano tanto a través de su obra como de su propia vida. El libro no solo reúne catorce trabajos sólidos, rigurosos y detallados sobre diversas dinámicas familiares, sino que también destaca por las tres últimas contribuciones que conforman una sección
... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987423">Read More</a>
Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/425/image/coversmallVínculos de sangre, parentescos manipulados y derechos familiares en Calderón ed. by Hanno Ehrlicher y Christian Grünnagel (review)2026-04-08text/htmlen-USVínculos de sangre, parentescos manipulados y derechos familiares en Calderón ed. by Hanno Ehrlicher y Christian Grünnagel (review)2026-04-082026TWOProject MUSE®215162026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-04-08The Stolen Bones of St. John of Matha. Forgery, Theft, and Sainthood in the Seventeenth Century by A. Katie Harris (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987417
<p></p>
EL FALLECIMIENTO EN FEBRERO DE 2025 de A. Katie Harris supuso una pérdida irreparable para el campo de la historia cultural de la Europa moderna. Profesora en la University of California, Davis, Harris nos ha dejado una obra coherente y rica, centrada en la vida espiritual, las formas de conocimiento y las prácticas corporales de la fe católica. Su primera monografía, From Muslim to Christian Granada: Inventing a City's Past in Early Modern Spain (The Johns Hopkins UP, 2007), ya demostraba su sensibilidad hacia los espacios liminales y heterodoxos de la identidad religiosa. Su último libro representa una culminación —y, ay, un testamento— intelectual donde se conjugan sus intereses por la historia social, la
... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987423">Read More</a>
Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/425/image/coversmallThe Stolen Bones of St. John of Matha. Forgery, Theft, and Sainthood in the Seventeenth Century by A. Katie Harris (review)2026-04-08text/htmlen-USThe Stolen Bones of St. John of Matha. Forgery, Theft, and Sainthood in the Seventeenth Century by A. Katie Harris (review)2026-04-082026TWOProject MUSE®104962026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-04-08The Librarian's Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain by Seth Kimmel (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987418
<p></p>
KIMMEL'S INTERDISCIPLINARY exploration of what he terms "library culture," "the bibliographic methods, metaphors of assemblage and compilation, and forms of learned sociability that characterized the processes of collection and conservation occurring in libraries" (4). Considering a broad corpus of manuscript and printed catalogs, published histories, geographic reference works, maps, dictionaries, paintings, and sculptures, mainly associated either with the personal library of Christopher Columbus's son, Hernando Colón (1488–1539), or Philip II's ambitious royal library at San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Kimmel argues that this bibliographic work had sweeping epistemological and cosmographic ambitions. He identifies
... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987423">Read More</a>
Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/425/image/coversmallThe Librarian's Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain by Seth Kimmel (review)2026-04-08text/htmlen-USThe Librarian's Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain by Seth Kimmel (review)2026-04-082026TWOProject MUSE®124502026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-04-08Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century by José Lingna Nafafé (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987419
<p></p>
REVIEWING LINGNA Nafafé's book is daunting, for a couple of reasons. The first is that the book contains at least two monographs in one. Lingna Nafafé meticulously engages both the history of a lawsuit against Atlantic slavery and the vast historiography on the various clashing concepts of slavery that shaped the Portuguese-led Atlantic slave trade. The second challenge is that the book contributes to various interrelated fields of inquiry. Fully understanding Lingna Nafafé's feat of multidisciplinary scholarship requires that readers either trust his multifaceted approach or be acquainted with research done in the fields of Atlantic history, Lusophone cultural studies, intellectual and social history of West
... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987423">Read More</a>
Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/425/image/coversmallLourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century by José Lingna Nafafé (review)2026-04-08text/htmlen-USLourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century by José Lingna Nafafé (review)2026-04-082026TWOProject MUSE®161332026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-04-08Space, Drama, and Empire: Mapping the Past in Lope de Vega's Comedia by Javier Lorenzo (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987420
<p></p>
THIS LEAN, INSIGHTFUL study integrates significant portions of three previously published journal articles to explore the political role of space in four historical dramas by Lope de Vega. Inspired by recent postcolonial and transatlantic studies examining the interdependence of theater and empire in early modern Europe and Spanish comedia, Lorenzo conceptualizes dramatic space not as scenography (mimetic or stage space) but in a broader, geographical sense—as location and fictional setting (imagined landscape, diegetic space). He argues that Lope's refashioning of critical moments in Spain's medieval and early modern past as "imperial" or "proto-imperial" episodes relies heavily on the use of space as a tool to
... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987423">Read More</a>
Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/425/image/coversmallSpace, Drama, and Empire: Mapping the Past in Lope de Vega's Comedia by Javier Lorenzo (review)2026-04-08text/htmlen-USSpace, Drama, and Empire: Mapping the Past in Lope de Vega's Comedia by Javier Lorenzo (review)2026-04-082026TWOProject MUSE®139912026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-04-08Amphion: Lyric, Poetry, and Politics in Modernity by Leah Middlebrook (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987421
<p></p>
THE INTERRELATED DEVELOPMENT of Western lyric poetry, polities, and empires as illustrated by the recurring myth of Amphion is the subject of this book. Amphion, a demigod whose musical skills led Hermes to gift him the lyre, played so beautifully that rocks stacked themselves up to build the walls of Thebes, the city he ruled as king. He eventually loses his family and commits suicide, but it is his role as poet-builder, and what it says about poetry's relation to society, that Middlebrook interrogates through close-readings buttressed by historical context and theoretical insights. To that effect, she analyzes Amphion as an explicit allusion and a conceptual cipher for "a specific kind of poiesis, a generativity
... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987423">Read More</a>
Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/425/image/coversmallAmphion: Lyric, Poetry, and Politics in Modernity by Leah Middlebrook (review)2026-04-08text/htmlen-USAmphion: Lyric, Poetry, and Politics in Modernity by Leah Middlebrook (review)2026-04-082026TWOProject MUSE®128222026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-04-08Sense and Spectacle in the Age of Philip IV: Performing Empire in Word, Music, and Image by Mary B. Quinn (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987422
<p></p>
"A SMALL BOY WITH GHOSTLY PALE SKIN, wispy blond hair, and large near-set eyes stares from the painted canvas. The white pallor of his hands and face and the flush of his cheeks are reflected by the same peach-and-white colors in his long lacy gown. His look is tranquil, perhaps even timid or sickly, especially for a future ruler …" (17). So begins Mary Quinn's monograph, with a vivid and poetic description of Diego de Velázquez's 1659 portrait of young prince Felipe Próspero (fig. 1, 18), son of Philip IV and Mariana of Austria and long-awaited heir to the Spanish Crown. His birth on 28 November 1657 sparked a cascade of festivities celebrated across the Spanish Empire. (The euphoria would be short lived, as he
... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987423">Read More</a>
Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/425/image/coversmallSense and Spectacle in the Age of Philip IV: Performing Empire in Word, Music, and Image by Mary B. Quinn (review)2026-04-08text/htmlen-USSense and Spectacle in the Age of Philip IV: Performing Empire in Word, Music, and Image by Mary B. Quinn (review)2026-04-082026TWOProject MUSE®138942026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-04-08Comedias. Parte XXIII. Edición crítica de PROLOPE, coordinada por Fernando Rodríguez-Gallego by Lope de Vega (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987423
<p></p>
PROLOPE, grupo de investigación fundado por Alberto Blecua en la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, lleva tres décadas largas dedicado a la ingente tarea de publicar las partes de comedias de Lope a un ritmo, últimamente, de una por año: nada menos que doce comedias, pulcramente editadas en unas dos mil páginas, son las que cada otoño nos regala este proyecto sabiamente pilotado ahora por Gonzalo Pontón. El proceso editorial es una labor de varios años y de un equipo cuyos componentes revisan el trabajo en diferentes etapas, lo que supone unos filtros de calidad inusuales en las tareas filológicas. Solo esta parte la firman veinticuatro personas: el coordinador, los doce editores de las comedias y once miembros del
... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987423">Read More</a>
Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/425/image/coversmallComedias. Parte XXIII. Edición crítica de PROLOPE, coordinada por Fernando Rodríguez-Gallego by Lope de Vega (review)2026-04-08text/htmlen-USComedias. Parte XXIII. Edición crítica de PROLOPE, coordinada por Fernando Rodríguez-Gallego by Lope de Vega (review)2026-04-082026TWOProject MUSE®220492026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-04-08