El Amete de Toledo presents the story of a strong and faithful Muslim who is separated from his true love, removed from his homeland, and enslaved. His extremes of love and hate drive him to commit acts of great violence during his journey to spiritual conversion and death. This…
There exist less than thirty known comedias treating Spain's engagement with the New World. With access to the entire corpus, I analyse the genesis of the representative stereotype of the Indian, and trace its transposition from festival pageantry and allegorical iconography to …
"The rise of a popular and professional theater industry in early modern Spain (roughly 1580 1700) generated a cultural polemic: while popular comedy was mass-produced for a paying public for the first time in Spain, both secular and religious authorities became concerned with t…