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.

"This “recovery” project is a welcome addition to our often painfully inadequate knowledge of the roles women played in the circulation of dramatic texts and performance practices in early modern Europe. ... As the book’s first printed title pages announce explicitly, it is a tragicomedia. Nonetheless, this is a valuable book and one which deserves to be taken seriously, as do the theatrical foremothers whose contributions it honours." - Hilaire Kallendorf, Texas A&M University"Beyond Spain’s Borders thoroughly succeeds as an integral and coherent study because of its insistent and illuminating focus on women players in the widest sense of the term." - Robert Henke, Bulletin of the Comediantes, Volume 69, Number 2, 2017, pp. 133-137"Much excellent reading and research, sometimes in areas which are difficult to map, is behind these chapters, and contributors and editors alike should take the credit for the quality of the end result."- Jonathan Thacker, Exeter College, University of Oxford, Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal

• CONTENTSList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Women Players in Early Modern National TheatersAnne J. Cruz and María Cristina QuinteroPart I From Spain to the Transnational Stage1 The Domestication of Melibea: Recasting Spanish Characters in Early English DramaJosé María Pérez Fernández2 Transnational Transformations of Zayas’s El castigo de la miseria in France and EnglandSusan 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 PlaywrightsAnne J. Cruz5 "It´s a Spanish comedia, and therefore it's better than any other fête": Empress Margarita Teresa and Spanish Cultural Influence on the Imperial CourtLuis Tercero CasadoPart II Commedia and Court Crosscurrents6 Influencing Gender Roles: The Commedia dell’Arte in SpainAna Fernández Valbuena7 Royal Players: Habsburg Women, Border Crossings, and the Performance of QueenshipMaría Cristina Quintero8 A Stage for Isabel of Borbón: From Paris to AranjuezCarmela Mattza9 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 Anguita10 Isabel Farnese and the Sexual Politics of the Spanish Court Theater Ignacio López AlemanyNotes on Contributors

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.

"This “recovery” project is a welcome addition to our often painfully inadequate knowledge of the roles women played in the circulation of dramatic texts and performance practices in early modern Europe. ... As the book’s first printed title pages announce explicitly, it is a tragicomedia. Nonetheless, this is a valuable book and one which deserves to be taken seriously, as do the theatrical foremothers whose contributions it honours." - Hilaire Kallendorf, Texas A&M University"Beyond Spain’s Borders thoroughly succeeds as an integral and coherent study because of its insistent and illuminating focus on women players in the widest sense of the term." - Robert Henke, Bulletin of the Comediantes, Volume 69, Number 2, 2017, pp. 133-137"Much excellent reading and research, sometimes in areas which are difficult to map, is behind these chapters, and contributors and editors alike should take the credit for the quality of the end result."- Jonathan Thacker, Exeter College, University of Oxford, Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal

• CONTENTSList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Women Players in Early Modern National TheatersAnne J. Cruz and María Cristina QuinteroPart I From Spain to the Transnational Stage1 The Domestication of Melibea: Recasting Spanish Characters in Early English DramaJosé María Pérez Fernández2 Transnational Transformations of Zayas’s El castigo de la miseria in France and EnglandSusan 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 PlaywrightsAnne J. Cruz5 "It´s a Spanish comedia, and therefore it's better than any other fête": Empress Margarita Teresa and Spanish Cultural Influence on the Imperial CourtLuis Tercero CasadoPart II Commedia and Court Crosscurrents6 Influencing Gender Roles: The Commedia dell’Arte in SpainAna Fernández Valbuena7 Royal Players: Habsburg Women, Border Crossings, and the Performance of QueenshipMaría Cristina Quintero8 A Stage for Isabel of Borbón: From Paris to AranjuezCarmela Mattza9 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 Anguita10 Isabel Farnese and the Sexual Politics of the Spanish Court Theater Ignacio López AlemanyNotes on Contributors

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.

"This “recovery” project is a welcome addition to our often painfully inadequate knowledge of the roles women played in the circulation of dramatic texts and performance practices in early modern Europe. ... As the book’s first printed title pages announce explicitly, it is a tragicomedia. Nonetheless, this is a valuable book and one which deserves to be taken seriously, as do the theatrical foremothers whose contributions it honours." - Hilaire Kallendorf, Texas A&M University"Beyond Spain’s Borders thoroughly succeeds as an integral and coherent study because of its insistent and illuminating focus on women players in the widest sense of the term." - Robert Henke, Bulletin of the Comediantes, Volume 69, Number 2, 2017, pp. 133-137"Much excellent reading and research, sometimes in areas which are difficult to map, is behind these chapters, and contributors and editors alike should take the credit for the quality of the end result."- Jonathan Thacker, Exeter College, University of Oxford, Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal

• CONTENTSList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Women Players in Early Modern National TheatersAnne J. Cruz and María Cristina QuinteroPart I From Spain to the Transnational Stage1 The Domestication of Melibea: Recasting Spanish Characters in Early English DramaJosé María Pérez Fernández2 Transnational Transformations of Zayas’s El castigo de la miseria in France and EnglandSusan 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 PlaywrightsAnne J. Cruz5 "It´s a Spanish comedia, and therefore it's better than any other fête": Empress Margarita Teresa and Spanish Cultural Influence on the Imperial CourtLuis Tercero CasadoPart II Commedia and Court Crosscurrents6 Influencing Gender Roles: The Commedia dell’Arte in SpainAna Fernández Valbuena7 Royal Players: Habsburg Women, Border Crossings, and the Performance of QueenshipMaría Cristina Quintero8 A Stage for Isabel of Borbón: From Paris to AranjuezCarmela Mattza9 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 Anguita10 Isabel Farnese and the Sexual Politics of the Spanish Court Theater Ignacio López AlemanyNotes on Contributors