Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Illustrations viii
4. List of Contributors ix
5. Acknowledgments xiii
6. Introduction: Reassessing Tirso for a Twenty-First-Century Audience 1
7. PART I. A WORLDLY FRIAR
8. 1. Aligning Contradictions: Tirso de Molina’s Life and Works 9
9. 2. A Text with No Name? The Rise and Fall of Tirso’s Attribution of El burlador de Sevilla 23
10. 3. Prose Fiction and Authorial Self-Fashioning: Los cigarrales de Toledo and Deleitar aprovechando 41
11. 4. The Religious Theater of Fray Gabriel Téllez 55
12. PART II. ANTINORMATIVE IDENTITIES
13. 5. Melancholy Subjects: Pathological Love in the Plays of Tirso de Molina 73
14. 6. “Mozo soy y mozo fuiste”: Early Modern Conceptions of Age and Masculinity in El burlador de Sevilla 86
15. 7. All about the Mother in Lessons to the Wise 100
16. 8. To Be and Not to Be: Iterations of Disguise in the Theater of Tirso de Molina 115
17. 9. Dressing the Part: Costuming and Material Culture in Tirso de Molina 131
18. PART III. SOUNDSCAPES AND LANDSCAPES
19. 10. Tirso de Molina: A Musical Meeting of the Minds 147
20. 11. The Figurative Geography of Natural Landscapes in Tirso de Molina 160
21. 12. Tirso de Molina: Encounters with the New World 172
22. 13. Tirso Goes Underground 186
23. 14. The Impossible Lockdown: Tirso de Molina’s Lessons in Domesticity 206
24. PART IV. UNCONVENTIONAL AFTERLIVES
25. 15. Staging Tirso de Molina in Spain and England (1986– ): Ingenuity or Aberration? 221
26. 16. Tirso de Molina in English: Translation for Performance 237
27. 17. Tirso de Molina on Stage: Comedy, Costumes, Chameleons 255
28. 18. Performing Gender on the English-Language Stage: Tirso’s Queer Characters 271
29. 19. Dismantling Myths and Repositioning the Other: Tirso de Molina for the Twenty-First-Century Classroom 285
30. 20. Tirso de Molina’s Critical Panorama (2010–2021) 300
31. Index 321