[Comedias] help needed

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Dear Harley,
Should you wish to include theater in your course, I suggest reading Don Cruickshank's "Lisping and  Wearing Strange Suits: English Characters on the Spanish Stage and Spanish Characters on the English Stage," Parallel Lives:Spanish and English National Drama 1580-1680. Eds. Louise and Peter Fothergill-Payne, Lewisburg, Bucknell UP, 1991, 195-210. He makes the point that while Spanish plays do not present caricatures of the English, English plays "treat Spain unfavorably." Your course sounds fascinating!
Best wishes,
Sharon

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> On Jul 21, 2016, at 8:19 PM, AHCT Listserv <comedias at comedias.org> wrote:
> 
> Bob,
> Thanks so much for this helpful reply. As a matter of fact, I just got alerted to Malty by another AHCT member a few days ago, checked it out, and found that it's very much what I'm looking for. So, great (AHCT) minds think alike!
> I appreciate your reaching out, and hope our paths will cross in El Paso this coming spring.
> Cheers,
> Harley
> 
>> On 7/20/2016 4:24 PM, AHCT Listserv wrote:
>> Hi, Harley,
>> 
>> In English and about the Black Legend, you might take a look at:  William S. Maltby. The Black Legend in England: The Development of Anti-Spanish Sentiment, 1558-1660. Duke UP: Durham, 1971.
>> 
>> Malty offers some engaging reading, including, for example the following quote from "The Coppie of the Anti-Spaniard made at Paris by a French man, a Catholique, Wherein is directly professed how the Spanish King is the onely cause of all the troubles in France. Translated out of the French into English." London: John Wolfe, 1590.: "… [their]insatiate avarice, their more than Tigerish cruelty, their filthy monstrous and abominable luxury, their wasteful burning of thy houses, their detestable ransacking and pillage of those great treasures which from all parts of Europe were laid up in store in thy sumptuous palaces, their lustful and inhuman deflowreing of thy matrons, wives, and daughters, their matchless and sodomitical ravishing of young boys, which the demi-barbarian Spaniards committed in the presence of aged burgesses that were fathers, bretheren, or husbands of those tormented patients, who to grieve them the more while they committed all these escreable villainies and outrageous cruelties, did tie and chain them at their bed's feet, or in other places, and last of all the general and continual cruel tormenting and massacreing of poor and wretched citizens" (Maltby, p. 85).
>> 
>> Sounds vaguely like something I've heard recently.  Though his focus in on England, Maltby mentions the growth of the BL in other European countries, and, if I recall, in the Americas.
>> 
>> Best wishes,
>> Bob J.
>> 
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>> Dear AHCT Colleagues,
>> I am teaching a course on the comedia for undergraduate theater majors
>> this fall, and am looking for a reading that deals either with the
>> "leyenda negra" and/or reflects on the place of Spanish/Hispanic/Latino
>> cultural production in the Anglophone world.  Would need to be in
>> English; need not be specifically about the comedia or Siglo do Oro.
>> Ideally, something stimulating for the start of the semester, for these
>> students who have no exposure at all to our field. Any suggestions?
>> Am also open to any other ideas for readings that are good
>> semester-starting places for students with this background.
>> Thanks,
>> Harley Erdman
>> 
>> am lookin--
>> Harley Erdman
>> Professor of Theater
>> University of Massachusetts at Amherst
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