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This Norton Critical Edition includes: ⁊ Five major early modern plays of the Spanish Empire-The Siege of Numantia, Fuenteovejuna, The Dog in the Manger, Life Is a Dream, and The Trials of a Noble House-when Spain produced one of the most vibrant and dramatic canons in the history of theater. ⁊ An Introduction, a Note on the Translation, and explanatory footnotes by G. J. Racz and Barbara Fuchs. ⁊ Background materials centering on the comedia; on class, gender, and the performance of identity; and on stages, actors, and audiences. ⁊ Fourteen judiciously chosen critical essays both on Golden Age Spanish drama generally and on the individual plays. ⁊ A Selected Bibliography.

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Barbara Fuchs is Professor of Spanish and English at UCLA, where she also directs the Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William A. Clark Memorial Library. She is the author of Mimesis and Empire: The New World, Islam, and the Construction of European Identities (2001), Passing for Spain: Cervantes and the Fictions of Identity (2003), Romance (2004), and Exotic Nation: Maurophilia and the Construction of Early Modern Spain (2009). She is also a co-editor, with Aaron Ilika, of two captivity plays by Miguel de Cervantes: The Bagnios of Algiers and The Great Sultana (2009).

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