Contents: Introduction; Theater and society in early modern Madrid and London; The female role in the theaters of London and Madrid; The communal appeal of Thomas Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday; Rank, gender and honor in the peasant plays of Lope de Vega: a revaluation; Class, gender, and carnival: communal heroism in Fuente Ovejuna; Coda; Bibliography; Index.
A graduate of the University of Sydney, Ivan Canadas is an Assistant Professor in English at Hallym University, South Korea. He has published several refereed articles on early modern drama, short essays and translations of Golden-Age Spanish poetry, and is currently at work on a critical dual-language edition of Lope de Vega's La villana de Getafe.
'This work offers a valuable perspective for comparing English and Spanish theater during a period (ca. 1580-1630) of national definition for both countries... Professor Cañadas discourses widely and wisely with many contemporary feminist scholars.' Renaissance Quarterly ’Cañadas' analysis is thorough and nuanced, as well as theoretically cogent... Cañadas, who is equally at home in both national literatures, also exhibits a welcome clarity of exposition and argument, making this book useful for nonexperts; that is, it could be read profitably by advanced undergraduates as well as graduate students, in either or both literatures, and his analysis of the scholarly trends in reading Shakespeare and Lope is well done.’ Sixteenth Century Journal
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