Approaches to Teaching Early Modern Spanish Drama

Carballal, Ana Isabel; Bass, Laura R.; Greer, Margaret Rich

doi:10.2307/4143862

Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature

2006

DOI: 10.2307/4143862

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Approaches to Teaching Early Modern Spanish Drama

Ana Isabel Carballal¹,

Laura R. Bass²,

Margaret Rich Greer³

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Lope's Imperial Geography: Cosmography, Gender, and Dietetics in Los guanches de Tenerife y conquista de Canaria

Lorenzo¹

2012

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This essay examines the legitimizing role that the interaction between cosmography, gender, and dietetics plays in the troping of conquest and land acquisition in Lope de Vega's Comedia famosa de los guanches de Tenerife y conquista de Canaria . In Lope's play, the political desire for control and possession of Tenerife as a colonial space is articulated through images of penetration and ingestion that find their ultimate source of legitimacy in the cosmographic, sexual, and dietary discourses of early modern Europe and the Spanish crónicas de Indias . The discourses intersect at various points in the play to shape the contours of an "imperial geography" whose purpose is to validate and supplement the ethnographic and cultural strategies of dispossession that Lope employs throughout the comedia : his depiction of the guanches or native Canarians as primitive and unaware of the economic potential of their land, their technological backwardness, and their ignorance of the "true faith." While these strategies have been sufficiently analyzed and contextualized in previous studies of the play, the complex geography that codifies and justifies the appropriation of the guanches ' land has received almost no attention from the critics. By focusing on this particular aspect of the play, my essay fills a substantial gap in the existing critical literature on the play and offers new insights into the colonial complicities of early modern Spanish drama as revealed through its peculiar reading of space.

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Lope's Imperial Geography: Cosmography, Gender, and Dietetics in Los guanches de Tenerife y conquista de Canaria

Lorenzo¹

2012

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Restaging the Classroom: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Teaching Early Modern Hispanic Theater

Martin¹,

Seagraves²

2014

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Teaching undergraduate and graduate courses on early modern theater in the United States presents a major obstacle, namely, the great distance that separates instructors and students from the texts and contexts. In the face of such geographic, historical, and cultural distance, instructors must rely on a script that cannot reproduce the essence of the dramatic work at hand. University professors in the United States, in our quest to present early modern Hispanic theater in a way that is meaningful to students, can choose to stress the importance of staging as a fundamental element in teaching the classics. Here, we discuss the pedagogical benefits of a five-week study abroad program in Madrid, Spain, sponsored by the University of Delaware between 2004 and 2010, that focused on a multidisciplinary understanding of Golden Age theater as text, performance, and cultural phenomenon. We approach the evaluation of this program from our perspectives as program director and former participant of the program, respectively.

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Lope on YouTube: Film Analysis and Amateur Video Production in a Comedia Course

Patterson¹

2015

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Teachers of early modern theater often recognize that it is difficult for today’s generation of students to approach old dramatic works as actual plays instead of written texts. Two methods for dealing with this difficulty have emerged in recent decades. On the one hand, some teachers have increasingly emphasized the value of performance activities in the classroom as a way to not only bring the works to life for students, but also as an interpretive methodology. This strategy has the advantage of requiring an active approach to learning, but has the disadvantage of obligating students to participate in a genre with which they are generally unfamiliar. On the other hand, some teachers have come to recognize the importance of viewing and analyzing film versions of early modern works with their students. This strategy has the advantage of connecting the works to a medium that students regularly consume, but has the disadvantage of being a fairly passive engagement with the plays. This article argues that the way to achieve the best of both approaches is to assign an amateur video project, and reports on the outcomes of a course in which such a project was used.

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Lope's Imperial Geography: Cosmography, Gender, and Dietetics in Los guanches de Tenerife y conquista de Canaria

Lope's Imperial Geography: Cosmography, Gender, and Dietetics in Los guanches de Tenerife y conquista de Canaria

Restaging the Classroom: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Teaching Early Modern Hispanic Theater

Lope on YouTube: Film Analysis and Amateur Video Production in a Comedia Course

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