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Je?s's book is a stimulating and hugely detailed account of the making of the landmark RSC's Spanish Golden Age season...We can only hope that theatre practitioners and producers may draw inspiration from Je?s's painstaking work to revive more of the hidden treasures of Spain's rich dramatic heritage. * José A. Pérez Díez, Modern Language Review * This well-written and thorough monograph is highly recommended for scholars and theater practitioners alike. Jeffs's notes on the translation process are appropriate for translators considering the comedia, and her writingstyle is approachable for students at the graduate and undergraduate levels. * Christopher C. Oechler, Bulletin of the Comediantes * Staging the Spanish Golden Age serves as a detailed, critical record of an important translation event for the English-speaking stage and as an insightful provocation for future theatrical-translational collaborations. * Jean Graham-Jones, City University of New York, The Mercurian *

Staging the Spanish Golden Age serves as a detailed, critical record of an important translation event for the English-speaking stage and as an insightful provocation for future theatrical-translational collaborations. * Jean Graham-Jones, City University of New York, The Mercurian *

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Kathleen Jeffs is Associate Professor at Gonzaga University. Previously, she served as Post-Doctoral Research Assistant on the AHRC-funded project Out of the Wings (www.outofthewings.org) for which she was based at the University of Oxford. The aim of the project is to create a virtual environment geared for theatre practitioners and educators to spark new performances of Spanish drama in English translation. Dr Jeffs's doctoral research took place within the context of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Spanish Golden Age Season in 2004-05, for which she served as rehearsal dramaturg. Prior to her move to Gonzaga, she lectured on Golden Age drama at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and taught an undergraduate drama course at the University of Sussex.

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