[Comedias] Recent plays based on Golden Age classics?

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Thank you very much. This is exactly the kind of thing I was thinking of. I
was aware of Jose Rivera's Sueno, but not the others.

--Celia Braxton, Ph.D.
Adjunct Asst. Professor, Speech Communication, Queensborough Community
College
Adjunct Asst. Professor, Theatre Program, LaGuardia Community College



On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 1:42 PM, <comedias at comedias.org> wrote:

> *Man of the Flesh* (*El Burlador de Sevilla*) by Octavio Solis (based on
> the Zorilla y Moral version of Don Juan Tenorio)
> As for* Life is a Dream *adaptations, Solis wrote *Dreamlandia*, and José
> Rivera wrote *Sueño*.
>
>
> - Carla Della Gatta
> PhD Candidate, Theatre & Drama
> Northwestern University
>
>
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> Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 12:44:53 -0500
> To: comedias at comedias.org
> From: comedias at comedias.org
> Subject: Re: [Comedias] Recent plays based on Golden Age classics?
>
> To be clearer, I am building the syllabus around the INFLUENCE of Early
> Modern Spanish plays on theatre culture in the rest of Europe and the
> Western Hemisphere. The course itself will be offered in English but at
> present I am interested in Spanish-language of course, as well as plays in
> other languages, and also English-language plays. Thank you.
>
> --Celia Braxton, Ph.D.
> Adjunct Asst. Professor, Speech Communication, Queensborough Community
> College
> Adjunct Asst. Professor, Theatre Program, LaGuardia Community College
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Celia Braxton <celia.braxton at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> Dear Comediantes --
>   For a syllabus I am working on, could any of you suggest plays of the
> past 50 to 100 years based on classics of the Early Modern period? There
> are myriad adaptations of Life Is a Dream, of course, most of them
> referring to that play in their title. But are any of you aware of others?
> Any suggestions would be most appreciated. Thank you.
>
> --Celia Braxton, Ph.D.
> Adjunct Asst. Professor, Speech Communication, Queensborough Community
> College
> Adjunct Asst. Professor, Theatre Program, LaGuardia Community College
>
>
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