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Outrageous Juan Rana Entremeses: A Bilingual and Annotated Selection of Plays Written for This Spanish Age Gracioso
Contributor(s): Thompson, Peter E. (Author)
ISBN: 0802093639     ISBN-13: 9780802093639
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
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Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: August 2009
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The Outrageous Juan Rana Entremeses translates a selection of Juan Rana's interludes for the first time, highlighting their literary complexity and providing historical context for the many double meanings and innuendos they contain.
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BISAC Categories:
- Drama | European - General
Dewey: 862.054
Series: University of Toronto Romance (Hardcover)
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.1" W x 9.5" (1.30 lbs) 272 pages
 
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Juan Rana, the most famous actor of the Spanish Golden Age, enjoyed a long and successful career from 1617 to 1672. Over fifty entremeses - interludes featured between the main acts of full-length plays - were written especially for him by some of the most important playwrights of the period. This bilingual and annotated edition of The Outrageous Juan Rana Entremeses translates a selection of the entremeses for the first time, highlighting their literary complexity and providing historical context for the many double meanings and innuendos they contain.

Rana's arrest for homosexuality in 1636 led him to play more gender bending, transvestite, and implicitly sexual roles. Many of his roles parody marriage, patriarchy, and heterocentric values while wrestling with issues of gender, sexual, and biological identity. As Peter E. Thompson ably demonstrates, these interludes challenge preconceived notions about society during the Spanish Golden Age by dealing with subject matter that remains extraordinarily relevant today.

Contributor Bio(s): Thompson, Peter E.: - Peter E. Thompson is an associate professor in the Department of Spanish and Italian and the Department Women's Studies at Queen's University.