"This volume represents a timely and welcome teaching resource to scholars of early modern Spanish theater. It is an intelligently prepared and worthy addition to the MLA Approaches to Teaching series." --Maria Cristina Quintero, Bryn Mawr College
Laura R. Bass is assistant professor at Tulane University. She teaches courses on early modern Spanish and colonial Latin American literature, art, and culture and has won awards for her work in the classroom. She has published articles on literature from the fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries. Her book manuscript "The Drama of the Portrait: Theater and Visual Culture in Early Modern Spain" is currently under review. Margaret R. Greer is chair and professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Studies, Duke University. Her publications include Maria de Zayas Tells Baroque Tales of Love and the Cruelty of Men; The Play of Power: Mythological Court Drama of Pedro Calderon de la Barca; and two editions of Calderon plays. She is working on books on early modern Spanish tragedy and on hunting in Spanish and colonial literature, art, and law.