Converso Plays of Seventeenth-Century Spain

Felipe Godínez’s Queen Esther and Antonio Enríquez Gómez’s Abigail the Prudent

Buch | Hardcover

472 Seiten

2026
Liverpool University Press (Verlag)
9781805967583 (ISBN)

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This volume features the first-ever English translations of Felipe Godínez’s Queen Esther and Antonio Enríquez Gómez’s Abigail the Prudent. These lively Old Testament plays by conversos – 17th-century Christian writers of Jewish heritage – show playwrights delivering inspirational messages to converso audiences in the face of censorship and oppression. Both these playwrights, who had numerous family members persecuted by the Inquisition for covertly practicing Judaism, were themselves imprisoned by the Inquisition for the unorthodox beliefs put forward in their writings. In fact, Godínez’s Queen Esther was cited by the Inquisition as heretical at the time of the playwright’s arrest. This book invites such questions as: is there such a thing as an early modern converso dramaturgy? If so, how do these plays manifest it? If we imagine these plays were written in part for “New Christian” audiences, how do they speak to those audience members?

Harley Erdman is Professor of Theater at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. A playwright, translator, and dramaturg, he is the author or editor of six books.

Introduction

A Note on the Translations

Bibliography

La reina Ester/Queen Esther

La prudente Abigail/Abigail the Prudent

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.2.2026
Reihe/Serie	Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics
Übersetzer	Harley Erdman
Verlagsort	Liverpool
Sprache	englisch
Maße	163 x 239 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
ISBN-13	9781805967583 / 9781805967583
Zustand	Neuware