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Converso Plays of Seventeenth-Century Spain

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)
CHF 226,95 inkl. MwSt
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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
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