Full Description
Juan Rana, the most famous actor of the Spanish Golden Age, enjoyed a long and successful career from 1617 to 1672. Over fifty entremeses - interludes featured between the main acts of full-length plays - were written especially for him by some of the most important playwrights of the period. This bilingual and annotated edition of The Outrageous Juan Rana Entremeses translates a selection of the entremeses for the first time, highlighting their literary complexity and providing historical context for the many double meanings and innuendos they contain.
Rana's arrest for homosexuality in 1636 led him to play more gender bending, transvestite, and implicitly sexual roles. Many of his roles parody marriage, patriarchy, and heterocentric values while wrestling with issues of gender, sexual, and biological identity. As Peter E. Thompson ably demonstrates, these interludes challenge preconceived notions about society during the Spanish Golden Age by dealing with subject matter that remains extraordinarily relevant today.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Outrageous Juan Rana
El guardainfante I. Luis Quiñones de Benavante
El guardainfante II. Luis Quiñones de Benavante
Les muertos vivos. Luis Quiñones de Benavante
El parto de Juan Rana. Francisco de Pedro Lanini y Sagredo
Las fiestas del aldea. Francisco Bernardo de Quirós
Una rana hace ciento. Luis Belmonte Bermúdez
El desafío de Juan Rana. Pedro Calderón de la Barca
El retrato de Juan Rana. Sebasitán de Villaviciosa
La boda de Juan Rana.Gerónimo Cáncer y Velasco
La loa de Juan Rana. Agustín Moreto y Cavana
Juan Rana muger. Gerónimo Cáncer y Velasco
El triunfo de Juan Rana. Pedro Calderón de la Barca
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