• A quick summary of The Courage to Right a Woman’s Wrongs
• Introducing our guest, Tommy Hegarty
• The history of the Don Juan myth
  • Where did it start and how did it evolve?
  • How does it connect further to Spanish theatre culture?
• Subverting the Don Juan myth
  • Leonor’s embodiment of Don Juan traits
  • Don Juan’s guilt/accountability
• Let’s read the “will-they-won’t-they-sword-fight” scene
  • Flashback to Don Juan abandoning Leonor!
  • Flashback to Leonor tricking Estela!
• Relationship between disguise & honor in Spanish theatre history
• Introducing queer theory

Episode Transcript and Bibliography available here.

• Introducing Dr. Barbara Fuchs, Distinguished Professor of Spanish and English at UCLA and director of the Working Group on the Comedia in Translation and Performance and the Diversifying the Classics project.
• What is the process of collaborative translation?
• Comparing English Renaissance drama with Spanish Golden Age plays
• Centering the actress on the Spanish stage
• Connecting Caro to her contemporaries

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• What is a mujer varonil and how do we know her when we encounter her in a Spanish Golden Age play (and in pop culture)?
• Louis explains gender theory in one minute or less
• Gender binaries and gendering honor
  • Men’s honor
  • Women’s honor
• Let’s make some horror movie connections!
• Brooke talks us through the complications of the double wooing in the play’s double balcony scene in relation to women’s honor and notions of gendered space in two minutes!
• How does Caro play with these ideas and subvert her audiences expectations?

Episode Transcript and Bibliography available here.

• Grab a glass to toast along with us as we explore the influences that shaped the (many!) servant characters in Caro’s play
• Get to know a little background on Spanish comedia, its servants, and its Italian commedia dell’Arte ‘cousins’ as well
• Meet our special guest expert, Anastasia Wilson. Wilson is a Professor of Performance at Georgia State University who studied in Italy at the Accademia dell’Arte.
  • How did Italian commedia dell’Arte influence Spanish writers?
  • What are zanni and how do we know them when we see them?
• How do we approach these servant characters for a 21^st century American audience?
• What resonances are found when we layer feminist and justice-focused lenses on these characters in performance?

Episode Transcript and Bibliography available here.