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Henry W. Sullivan, Raul A. Galoppe, and Mahlon L. Stoutz, Eds. La comedia espanola y el teatro europeo del siglo XVII. London: Tamesis, 1999. Pp. x + 193. $60.00.
Carefully edited and printed on low-acid paper, this excellent collection of nine essays by different writers presents a multifaceted view of the influence exerted by the Spanish comedia on seventeenth-century European theater in Italy, France, Germany, and Poland. In the first study, "La comedia espanola en la Italia del siglo XVII" (1-36), Nancy L. D'Antuono states that the dramatic successes of Lope de Vega and his followers were brought by a Spanish company to Naples beginning about 1620. Subsequently, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, traveling acting companies from Italy were instrumental in popularizing the plots and characters typical of the...
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