Contents

pp v-vii

List of Illustrations

pp viii-viii

List of Contributors

pp ix-xii

Acknowledgments

pp xiii-xiv

Introduction: Reassessing Tirso for a Twenty-First-Century Audience

pp 1-6

PART I - A Worldly Friar

pp 7-8

1 - Aligning Contradictions: Tirso de Molina’s Life and Works

pp 9-22

2 - A Text with No Name? The Rise and Fall of Tirso’s Attribution of El burlador de Sevilla

pp 23-40

3 - Prose Fiction and Authorial Self-Fashioning: Los cigarrales de Toledo and Deleitar aprovechando

pp 41-54

4 - The Religious Theater of Fray Gabriel Téllez

pp 55-70

PART II - Antinormative Identities

pp 71-72

5 - Melancholy Subjects: Pathological Love in the Plays of Tirso de Molina

pp 73-85

6 - “Mozo soy y mozo fuiste”: Early Modern Conceptions of Age and Masculinity in El burlador de Sevilla

pp 86-99

7 - All about the Mother in Lessons to the Wise

pp 100-114

8 - To Be and Not to Be: Iterations of Disguise in the Theater of Tirso de Molina

pp 115-130

9 - Dressing the Part: Costuming and Material Culture in Tirso de Molina

pp 131-144

PART III - Soundscapes and Landscapes

pp 145-146

10 - Tirso de Molina: A Musical Meeting of the Minds

pp 147-159

11 - The Figurative Geography of Natural Landscapes in Tirso de Molina

pp 160-171

12 - Tirso de Molina: Encounters with the New World

pp 172-185

13 - Tirso Goes Underground

pp 186-205

14 - The Impossible Lockdown: Tirso de Molina’s Lessons in Domesticity

pp 206-218

PART IV - Unconventional Afterlives

pp 219-220

15 - Staging Tirso de Molina in Spain and England (1986– ): Ingenuity or Aberration?

pp 221-236

16 - Tirso de Molina in English: Translation for Performance

pp 237-254

17 - Tirso de Molina on Stage: Comedy, Costumes, Chameleons

pp 255-270

18 - Performing Gender on the English-Language Stage: Tirso’s Queer Characters

pp 271-284

19 - Dismantling Myths and Repositioning the Other: Tirso de Molina for the Twenty-First-Century Classroom

pp 285-299

20 - Tirso de Molina’s Critical Panorama (2010–2021)

pp 300-320