Jose Ruano de la Haza

University of Ottawa · Department of Modern Languages and Literatures

¿Por qué tuvieron que esperar los lectores de Calderón treinta y seis años después de su fallecimiento para poder leer, en la edición de Pando de 1717, la primera colección completa de sus autos? Durante la vida del autor, se publicaron varios volúmenes adocenados de sus comedias y, poco después de su muerte, Vera Tassis se encargó de publicar el r...

This is a review-article of Cruickshank's definitive biography of the first fifty years of Don Pedro Calderón's life. Cruickshank's emphasis is on Don Pedro's secular theatre, with some pertinent allusions to his autos, poems, short pieces, palace plays and the rewriting of certain plays. The article examines Cruickshank's masterful outline of the...

This paper challenges certain modern readings of Golden Age plays about kings and rulers. Placed in their historical, ideological, social and theatrical contexts, that is, imperial policy, censorship, social status of both playwrights and actors, the reality of playhouses -is it possible to conclude that some of these plays were a sort of drama a c...

This article was written by the late Premraj Halkhoree over twenty years ago as an Appendix to his Ph.D. thesis on "Social and Literary Satire in the Comedies of Tirso de Molina." The dissertation, directed by A. A. Parker and submitted to Edinburgh University, has now been published, newly edited and abridged, by Henry W. Sullivan and myself, unde...

In his excellent book on The Reconstruction of a Spanish Golden Age Playhouse , J.J. Allen concludes that the top floor of the facade building of the Corral del Príncipe was roughly divided into two halves; on the right-hand side, facing the stage, was the tertulia and on the left-hand side, divided from the tertulia by a thin partition, was the ca...

The Alcaldes de Casa y Corte were entrusted with the policing of the Madrid corrales during the seventeenth century. The Noticias , preserved in a manuscript in the Archivo Historico Nacional of Madrid, is a detailed account of their daily duties and obligations. It also offers a curious insight into the more picturesque and unusual aspects of life...

En un artículo sobre El mayor monstruo del mundo , publicado en 1981 ( BHS , 58, págs. 229-40), sugerí que, en la composición de este drama, Calderón había empleado la fórmula de la tragedia mixta, la cual puede ser definida como un tipo de obra dramática que, provocando temporalmente en el auditorio el efecto catártico, concluye por ser una demost...

Probably the product of the collaboration of a rural autor de comedias with a memorión and perhaps also with a poet in his employ, this early rehash of Peribáñez throws a great deal of light not only on the editing and staging practices of a typical compañía de la legua, but also on the meaning of the original text. Among other things, a systematic...

El presente libro es una nueva edición, corregida y puesta al día, de la segunda parte de Los teatros y la escenificación de la comedia (Editorial Castalia, 1994) Incluye bilbiografía e índice