Tirso de Molina: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Twenty-First Century

ESTHER FERNANDEZ is Associate Professor in Spanish at Rice University. ESTHER FERNANDEZ is Associate Professor in Spanish at Rice University. NOELIA CIRNIGLIARO Assistant Professor of Spanish, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA

In this brilliantly edited volume, the editor and contributors extend a compelling invitation to readers to explore the rich realm of Tirso de Molina's theater. This volume is a captivating collection of essays examining various facets of Tirso's life and work.

• INTRODUCTION: Reassessing Tirso for a Twenty-First-Century Audience - Esther Fernández PART I. A WORLDLY FRIAR 1. Aligning Contradictions: Tirso de Molina's Life and Works - Esther Fernández 2. A Text with No Name? The Rise and Fall of Tirso's Attribution of El burlador de Sevilla -Alejandro García-Reidy 3. Prose Fiction and Authorial Self-Fashioning: Los cigarrales de Toledo and Deleitar aprovechando - Christopher B. Weimer 4. The Religious Theater of Fray Gabriel Téllez - Alejandra Juno Rodríguez Villar PART II. ANTINORMATIVE IDENTITIES 5. Melancholy Subjects: Pathological Love in the Plays of Tirso de Molina - Emmy Herland 6. "Mozo soy y mozo fuiste": Early Modern Conceptions of Age and Masculinity in El burlador de Sevilla - José R. Cartagena-Calderón 7. All about the Mother in Lessons to the Wise - Judith Caballero 8. To Be and Not to Be: Iterations of Disguise in the Theater of Tirso de Molina - Robert L. Turner III 9. Dressing the Part: Costuming and Material Culture in Tirso de MolinaEmily C. Tobey PART III. SOUNDSCAPES AND LANDSCAPES 10. Tirso de Molina: A Musical Meeting of the Minds - Ivy Howell Walters 11. The Figurative Geography of Natural Landscapes in Tirso de Molina - Harrison Meadows 12. Tirso de Molina, Encounters with the New World - Gladys Robalino 13. Tirso Goes Underground - Antonio Guijarro-Donadiós 14. The Impossible Lockdown: Tirso de Molina's Lessons in Domesticity - Noelia S. Cirnigliaro PART IV. UNCONVENTIONAL AFTERLIVES 15. Staging Tirso de Molina in Spain and England (1986- ): Ingenuity or Aberration? - Susan L. Fischer 16. Tirso de Molina in English: Translation for Performance - Kathleen Jeffs 17. Tirso de Molina on Stage: Comedy, Costumes, Chameleons - Harley Erdman 18 . Performing Gender on the English-Language Stage: Tirso's Queer Characters - Sarah Grunnah 19. Dismantling Myths and Repositioning the Other: Tirso de Molina for the 21st Century Classroom - Erin A. Cowling and Glenda Y. Nieto-Cuebas 20. Tirso de Molina's Critical Panorama (2010-2021) - Ignacio Arellano Ayuso