Beyond Spain's Borders

Anne J. Cruz is Professor of Spanish and Cooper Fellow at the University of Miami, USA. María Cristina Quintero is Professor of Spanish, Director of Comparative Literature and Codirector of Romance Languages at Bryn Mawr College, USA.

CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Women Players in Early Modern National Theaters

Anne J. Cruz and María Cristina Quintero

Part I From Spain to the Transnational Stage

1 The Domestication of Melibea: Recasting Spanish Characters in Early English Drama

José María Pérez Fernández

2 Transnational Transformations of Zayas’s El castigo de la miseria in France and England

Susan Paun de García

3 To Conquer Paris: Spanish Actresses at the Court of Louis XIV (1660-1674)

Carmen Sanz Ayán

4 Spanish Plots and Spanish Stereotypes by Restoration Women Playwrights

Anne J. Cruz

5 "It´s a Spanish comedia, and therefore it's better than any other fête": Empress Margarita Teresa and Spanish Cultural Influence on the Imperial Court

Luis Tercero Casado

Part II Commedia and Court Crosscurrents

6 Influencing Gender Roles: The Commedia dell’Arte in Spain

Ana Fernández Valbuena

7 Royal Players: Habsburg Women, Border Crossings, and the Performance of Queenship

María Cristina Quintero

8 A Stage for Isabel of Borbón: From Paris to Aranjuez

Carmela Mattza

9 Spain, Italy, and France: Marie Louise of Savoy, the Princess of Ursins, and the Crosscurrents of Court Theater during the Spanish War of Succession (1701-1714)

José A. López Anguita

10 Isabel Farnese and the Sexual Politics of the Spanish Court Theater

Ignacio López Alemany

Notes on Contributors