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Margaret Rich Greer

Margaret Rich Greer

Professor Emeritus of Romance Studies
Romance Studies
mgreer@duke.edu
Box 90257, Durham, NC 27708-0257
35 Dolores Street, Apt. 401, San Francisco, CA 94103

Selected Publications

"Move over" Shakespeare: Lope's place in the European theater of his time

Journal Article Anuario Lope De Vega · January 1, 2017 This essay examines several factors that have stood in the way of an appropriate appreciation of the contributions of the theater of Lope de Vega and the Spanish comedia to early modern literature, factors that include political rivalries, oppositional nat ... Full text Cite

Secrets and mysteries in the tragic shift in el caballero de Olmedo

Journal Article Memoria Y Civilizacion · January 1, 2016 The fascination aroused by El caballero de Olmedo is due in part to the power of attraction of the secrets it contains. Some of them are easy to penetrate, others difficult, particularly for a modern public less aware of the «public secrets» (Taussig) of s ... Full text Cite

Reflections of power: Eco y Narciso by Calderón meets Las meninas by Velazquez

Journal Article Anuario Calderoniano · November 18, 2013 Calderón's court spectacle play Eco y Narciso was first performed in 1661 to celebrate the tenth birthday of the princess Margarita, the infanta in the center of Velázquez's painting Las meninas ( 1656). Calderón opens the drama with a celebration of the b ... Cite

The weight of law in Calderón

Journal Article Bulletin of Spanish Studies · June 1, 2013 From La vida es sueño to El postrer duelo de España and El pintor de su deshonra, Calderón repeatedly explores the weight of law on the individual, dramatizing the conflict between desire and law on both sides of the sexual divide. Law, invoked in its mult ... Full text Cite

Spain, Europe and the wider world, 1500–1800

Journal Article Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies · March 2013 Full text Cite

Manos Teatrales: Cyber-Paleography and Early Modern Spanish Theater

Journal Article Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies · 2013 Cite

Place, Space and Public Formation in the Drama of the Spanish Empire

Chapter · January 1, 2013 An attractive story-if perhaps not quite true-is that drama was reborn in Spain in the annus mirabilis of 1492, when the last Muslim kingdom in Iberia surrendered to Ferdinand and Isabella, ending its long “reconquest,” when Columbus “discovered” a New Wor ... Full text Cite

Thine and Mine: The Spanish Golden Age and Early Modern Studies

Journal Article PMLA, Theories & Methodologies section · January 2012 Cite

MIRROR NEURONS, THEATRICAL MIRRORS AND THE HONOR CODE

Journal Article ANUARIO CALDERONIANO · 2012 Cite

The Weight of Law in Calderón

Journal Article Bulletin of Spanish Studies · 2011 Cite

Autos sacramentales

Chapter · 2008 Cite

El proyecto ’Manos teatrales’

Journal Article Anuario Calderoniano · 2008 Cite

Spanish Golden Age Tragedy: From Cervantes to Calderón

Journal Article A Companion to Tragedy · 2007 Cite

Hispanism and its ’disciplina’

Journal Article Hispanic Issues on-line · 2006 Cite

Bruce W. Wardropper, 1919-2004

Journal Article Bulletin of Spanish Studies · 2005 Cite

Economies of the Early Modern Spanish Stage

Journal Article Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos · 2004 Cite

Pilgrimage to Patronage. Lope de Vega and the Court of Philip III, 1598-1621, by Elizabeth Wright

Journal Article Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (Liverpool). · 2002 Cite

In Memoriam: Anthony Higgins, 1964-2001

Journal Article Calíope · 2002 Cite

Maria de Zayas and the Female Eunuch

Journal Article Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies · 2001 Cite

A Tale of Three Cities: The Place of the Theatre in Early Modern Madrid, London and Paris

Journal Article Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (Liverpool) · 2000 Cite

A Star-Crossed Golden Age. Myth and the Spanish Comedia, Frederick A. De Armas, ed

Journal Article Revista de Estudios Hispánicos · 1999 Cite

Decolonizing the Middle Ages

Other Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies Cite

Introduction to Decolonizing the Middle Ages

Journal Article Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies Cite

Class and the Dirty Work of War in Calderón

Journal Article Anuario Calderoniano Cite