Contrasting fortunes: lope in the uk/Shakespeare in Spain

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  • Keith Gregor the University of Murcia Espanha

Resumo

In April 2004 the RSC began a season of five plays chosen from the vast, and still largely unexplored corpus of Spanish “Golden Age” drama. Laurence Boswell, who had received plaudits and also the Olivier Award for the SGA season he had conducted at The Gate theatre in London in 1992, was once again appointed to initiate audiences at Stratford, London and the provinces in the subtleties of the comedia form. And though at least two of the plays selected—Cervantes’s Pedro, the Great Pretender (directed by Mike Alfreds) and the Mexican nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s House of Desires (directed by Nancy Meckler)—had never been performed on the mainstream British stage, the pre-season hype and, naturally, Boswell himself were confident that the “plot-driven stories” of each of the plays, stories showing “essential human situations, like couples struggling with very recognizable dilemmas of love” (Boswell 2004), were what put them at the very centre of the European folk drama genre.

Biografia do Autor

Keith Gregor, the University of Murcia Espanha

teaches English and Irish literature, particularly drama, at the University of Murcia, and has lectured on both in places as far-flung and diverse as Finland and South Africa. His course on representations of English and Irish drama in Spain, to be co-taught with David George from the University of Swansea, is part of the Murcia doctoral programme “Estudios angloamericanos: textos y contextos,” recently granted a “Mención de Calidad” by the Ministry of Education. Since 1999, he has been a member of the National I+D Research Project “The reception of Shakespeare in Spain in the Framework of European Culture” with a special interest in Shakespeare’s presence on the Spanish stage. His publications in the field have examined different aspects of Bardic presence, such as Shakespeare as character, “shakespearemanía,” the adaptation of comedies and histories and, more recently, Spanish neoclassical rewritings of Hamlet, and he is currently working on a book-length study of Shakespearean performances in Spain. He is a contributor to the Oxford Encylopedia of Theatre and Performance.

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2005-01-01

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n. 49 (2005)

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Copyright (c) 2005 Keith Gregor

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