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Converso Plays of Seventeenth-Century Spain: Felipe Godínez's Queen Esther and Antonio Enríquez Gómez's Abigail the Prudent

by Harley Erdman , Harley Erdman
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781805967583
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Liverpool University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Liverpool University Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 472
  • Original Price: USD 160.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 713 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Ancient & Classical

This volume features the first-ever English translations of Felipe God�nez's Queen Esther and Antonio Enr�quez G�mez'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, God�nez'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?

Erdman, Harley: - 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.

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