JONATHAN THACKER is King Alfonso XIII Professor of Spanish Studies at the University of Oxford and Professorial Fellow at Exeter College, Oxford.

[B]ooks like The Comedia in English will prove indispensible in helping to bridge the gap between comediantes and English-speaking practitioners, audiences, and critics alike. ROMANISCHE FORSCHUNGEN [T]he book's variety of perspectives coupled with the quality of the articles, make this a work worthy of attention by anyone with an interest in the current state of the comedia in the Anglophone world, whether in Spanish or English translation.

• The Comedia in English: An Overview of Translation and PerformanceTranslating Comedias into English Verse for Modern Audiences - Dakin MatthewsTranslating the Polymetric Comedia for Performance [with Special Ref erence to Lope de Vega's Sonnets] - Victor DixonLope de Vega in English: The Historicised Imagination - David JohnstonFound in Translation: María de Zaya's Friendship Betrayed and the En glish-Speaking Stage - Catherine LarsonTransformation and Fluidity in the Translation of Classical Texts for Perfo rmance: The Case of Cervantes's Entremeses - Dawn L. SmithTranslation as Relocation - Ben GunterRehearsing Spite for Spite - Michael HalberstamDirecting Don Juan, The Trickster Of Seville - Anne McNaughtonDirecting the Comedia: Notes on a Process - Tirso's Tamar Untamed: A Lesson of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Producti on - Jonathan W. ThackerThe Loss of Context and the Traps of Gender in Sor Juana's Los empeños de una casa/House of Desires - Catherine M. BoyleTirso's Burlador de Sevilla as Playtext in English - James ParrAnne McNaughton's Don Juan: A Rogue for All Seasons - A. Robert LauerAspectual, Performative, and "Foreign" Lope/Shakespeare: Staging Capulet s & Montagues and Peribáñez in English and Romeo and Juliet in "Sicilian"I> in "Sicilian" - Susan L. FischerZaya's Comic Sense: The First Performance in English of La traición en la amistad - Sharon D VorosMaría de Zaya's Friendship Betrayed à la Hollywood: Translation, Transculturation, and Production - Barbara Mujica

JONATHAN THACKER is King Alfonso XIII Professor of Spanish Studies at the University of Oxford and Professorial Fellow at Exeter College, Oxford.

[B]ooks like The Comedia in English will prove indispensible in helping to bridge the gap between comediantes and English-speaking practitioners, audiences, and critics alike. ROMANISCHE FORSCHUNGEN [T]he book's variety of perspectives coupled with the quality of the articles, make this a work worthy of attention by anyone with an interest in the current state of the comedia in the Anglophone world, whether in Spanish or English translation.

• The Comedia in English: An Overview of Translation and PerformanceTranslating Comedias into English Verse for Modern Audiences - Dakin MatthewsTranslating the Polymetric Comedia for Performance [with Special Ref erence to Lope de Vega's Sonnets] - Victor DixonLope de Vega in English: The Historicised Imagination - David JohnstonFound in Translation: María de Zaya's Friendship Betrayed and the En glish-Speaking Stage - Catherine LarsonTransformation and Fluidity in the Translation of Classical Texts for Perfo rmance: The Case of Cervantes's Entremeses - Dawn L. SmithTranslation as Relocation - Ben GunterRehearsing Spite for Spite - Michael HalberstamDirecting Don Juan, The Trickster Of Seville - Anne McNaughtonDirecting the Comedia: Notes on a Process - Tirso's Tamar Untamed: A Lesson of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Producti on - Jonathan W. ThackerThe Loss of Context and the Traps of Gender in Sor Juana's Los empeños de una casa/House of Desires - Catherine M. BoyleTirso's Burlador de Sevilla as Playtext in English - James ParrAnne McNaughton's Don Juan: A Rogue for All Seasons - A. Robert LauerAspectual, Performative, and "Foreign" Lope/Shakespeare: Staging Capulet s & Montagues and Peribáñez in English and Romeo and Juliet in "Sicilian"I> in "Sicilian" - Susan L. FischerZaya's Comic Sense: The First Performance in English of La traición en la amistad - Sharon D VorosMaría de Zaya's Friendship Betrayed à la Hollywood: Translation, Transculturation, and Production - Barbara Mujica

JONATHAN THACKER is King Alfonso XIII Professor of Spanish Studies at the University of Oxford and Professorial Fellow at Exeter College, Oxford.

[B]ooks like The Comedia in English will prove indispensible in helping to bridge the gap between comediantes and English-speaking practitioners, audiences, and critics alike. ROMANISCHE FORSCHUNGEN [T]he book's variety of perspectives coupled with the quality of the articles, make this a work worthy of attention by anyone with an interest in the current state of the comedia in the Anglophone world, whether in Spanish or English translation.

• The Comedia in English: An Overview of Translation and PerformanceTranslating Comedias into English Verse for Modern Audiences - Dakin MatthewsTranslating the Polymetric Comedia for Performance [with Special Ref erence to Lope de Vega's Sonnets] - Victor DixonLope de Vega in English: The Historicised Imagination - David JohnstonFound in Translation: María de Zaya's Friendship Betrayed and the En glish-Speaking Stage - Catherine LarsonTransformation and Fluidity in the Translation of Classical Texts for Perfo rmance: The Case of Cervantes's Entremeses - Dawn L. SmithTranslation as Relocation - Ben GunterRehearsing Spite for Spite - Michael HalberstamDirecting Don Juan, The Trickster Of Seville - Anne McNaughtonDirecting the Comedia: Notes on a Process - Tirso's Tamar Untamed: A Lesson of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Producti on - Jonathan W. ThackerThe Loss of Context and the Traps of Gender in Sor Juana's Los empeños de una casa/House of Desires - Catherine M. BoyleTirso's Burlador de Sevilla as Playtext in English - James ParrAnne McNaughton's Don Juan: A Rogue for All Seasons - A. Robert LauerAspectual, Performative, and "Foreign" Lope/Shakespeare: Staging Capulet s & Montagues and Peribáñez in English and Romeo and Juliet in "Sicilian"I> in "Sicilian" - Susan L. FischerZaya's Comic Sense: The First Performance in English of La traición en la amistad - Sharon D VorosMaría de Zaya's Friendship Betrayed à la Hollywood: Translation, Transculturation, and Production - Barbara Mujica