1st Edition
Early Modern Drama in Modern Cultural Politics The Afterlives of Spanish Golden Age Theatre
Maravall, De-actualization and the Abduction of Golden Age Theater Theory; The Ideological Appropriation of the Legacy from Menéndez Pelayo's “Brindis del Retiro” [“Retiro Toast”] (1881) to the creation of the Compañía Nacional de Teatro Clásico (1986); Collective Characters and Identity: The Siege of Numantia ; Fuenteovejuna: From Local to Global; The Long Shadow of the Knight: Don Quixote Onstage, Globalization and Postcolonialism; Final Thoughts: Liberating Golden Age Theater from Its Political Abduction
Biography
Julio Vélez-Sainz is Full Professor of Spanish Literature at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where he co-directs the Seminar of Theatre Studies. Educated at the University of Chicago (Ph.D., 2002) and the Universidad de Salamanca (Ph.D., 2008), he is a specialist in literature and theatre as both scholar and practitioner. He has held visiting appointments at Yale University, Brown University, and the University of Chicago. He is the author of ten monographs, eight critical editions, and more than 150 articles and book chapters. He served as director of the Instituto del Teatro de Madrid (2016–2024), several editorial boards and is President ad honorem of the Asociación Internacional de Teatro Español y Novohispano de los Siglos de Oro (AITENSO).
