1st Edition
The Lieutenant Nun Annotated Translation of the Play, Historical Accounts and Documents about Antonio/Catalina de Erauso
1. Introduction: Translating a Trans Ancestor: Antonio/Catalina de Erauso
Marta Albalá Pelegrín and Edward McLean Test
2. Foreword: Antonio/Catalina de Erauso, The Lieutenant Nun, and the Play with Portraits
Sherry Velasco
3. The Lieutenant Nun: Translation of the Play La famosa comedia de la monja alférez
Marta Albalá Pelegrín and Edward McLean Test
4. Accounts: Translations of Historical Relaciones About Erauso
Marta Albalá Pelegrín and Edward McLean Test
5. Petitions: Translations of the Pamplona Petition and the Petition to the Council of the Indies
Marta Albalá Pelegrín and Edward McLean Test
6. Afterword: The Lieutenant Nun and Early Modern Trans Drama
Simone Chess and Sawyer K. Kemp
Appendix 1: Translation of Pietro Della Valle’s Letter
Marta Albalá Pelegrín and Edward McLean Test
Appendix 2: Gender Usage Table
Marta Albalá Pelegrín and Edward McLean Test
Appendix 3: Playbill from a 2022 Staged Reading
Marta Albalá Pelegrín, John Buchanan, and Joshua A. Salazar
Biography
Marta Albalá Pelegrín is Associate Professor at Cal Poly Pomona specializing in Mediterranean Studies and Early Modern Drama. She is co-editor of the special issues Crossroads in Early Modern Italy (2023), Comedia Crossings (2023) and Mobilities in the Western Mediterranean (12th–21st centuries) (forthcoming), and coordinates the public-facing podcast Radio Comedia.
Edward McLean Test is Professor in the Department of Theatre, Film, and Creative Writing at Boise State University. His publications include Sacred Seeds: New World Plants in Early Modern English Literature (2019) and a book of poetry, Fata Morgana (2004).
