Fuentes para la historia del Teatro en España – serie

A listing of plays performed in the theatres of Alicante during the first decade of the 20th century.With this volume, the scope of the Fuentesseries widens both geographically and chronologically. The first volumes dealt with Madrid, concentrating, though not exclusively, on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Latervolumes covered Alcalà de Henares, Tudela and Córdoba. In the present volume Francisco Reus Boyd-Swan lists the plays performed in the theatres of Alicante during the first decade of the twentieth century.Recent critics have become aware of the need to treat the theatre of the provinces of Madrid in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as seriously as that of the capital, and to study it in equal depth. In his Introduction the author recounts the history of the twelve theatres which were in use in the period and studies legislation affecting the theatres, special performances, times and prices of perfomances and analyses the theatre-going public and the types of plays presented.The main listing of plays is in chronological order, supported by indexes of playwrights, librettists and composers. Twelve illustrations include plans of theatres and reproductions of contemporary posters.FRANCISCO REUS BOYD-SWAN is a graduate of the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain's Open University.

Una nueva edición de la primera historia sistemática del teatro en España.Esta nueva edición de las Memorias cronológicas de José Antonio de Armona ofrece por primera vez un análisis pormenorizado de las fuentes documentales empleadas por el autor, que constituyen su aportación más fundamentlos estudios teatrales. La obra de Armona es la primera historia sistemática del teatro en España, desde el final de la Edad Media hasta su propia época. Aunque incluye una visión general de la literatura dramática del Siglo de Oro, se centra principalmente en los aspectos institucionales del teatro. En su calidad de Corregidor de Madrid, le correspondía a Armona el cargo de Juez Protector, máxima autoridad de la administración de los teatros públicos y los actores, y la mayor parte de sus Memorias se dedica a este tema. Habiendo reflexionado sobre su experiencia como Protector y los problemas planteados por conflictos jurisdiccionales en este ámbito, Armona examinó sus orígenes y evolución mediante extensas investigaciones en los archivos municipales de Madrid, reuniendo y recopilando una nutrida colección de documentos que aclaran múltiples aspectos de la historia teatral. Por tanto, sus Memorias están estrechamente relacionadas con la documentación municipal publicada en tomos anteriores de las Fuentes para la Historia del Teatro en España, y deben situarse en este contexto.En español xiv+352 pp., 8 ilus.b/n Fuentes para la Historia del Teatro en España, XIV CHARLES DAVIS es Honorary Research Fellow de Queen Mary, Universidad de Londres.

Surviving theatrical contracts throw light on the remarkable degree of theatrical activity throughout 17c Spain.In 1639 the Madrid notary Juan García de Albertos was appointed Escribano de la Comisión de las comedias - official theatre notary. His annual registers of contracts (protocolos) contain more than two thousand items related to actors and theatrical activity from 1634 to 1660. This exceptionally rich collection of documents offers a fascinating overview of theatrical life, in all its diversity, in Madrid and the surrounding area during the age of Calderón. Especially plentiful are the contracts for performances at festivities in towns and villages, both by professional companies and by local amateurs assisted by individual actresses and musicians hired in Madrid. This extraordinary degree of theatrical activity in even the smallest communities, almost entirely neglected hitherto, forces us to revise and expand our conventional picture of the Spanish Golden Age theatre. The collection also reveals in abundant detail the composition and working practices of acting companies, especially in the numerous asientos (actors' employment contracts), as well as transport conditions, costume hire, staging practices and repertory. The actors' convoluted and often precarious finances are an ever-present theme. The documents are accompanied by appendices and maps, and the extensive introduction provides an exhaustive survey of what can be learned from this remarkable source.CHARLES DAVIS was formerly Lecturer in Spanish at Queen Mary, University of London, and is currently a Ramón y Cajal Research Fellow at the University of Valencia. The late J. E. VAREYwas Professor of Spanish at the University of London and Principal of Westfield College.For description in Spanish see Volume II.Actividad Teatral en la Región de Madrid is published in TWO VOLUMES (I: ISBN 1855660628, II ISBN 1855660792) WHICH MUST BE PURCHASED AS A SET.