The Outrageous Juan Rana ‹em›Entremeses‹/em› : : A Bilingual and Annotated Selection of Plays Written for This Spanish Age ‹em›Gracioso‹/em› / / Peter E. Thompson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
• VerfasserIn: Thompson, Peter E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: The Outrageous Juan Rana --; El guardainfante I y II / The Hoopskirt I and II /; Los muertos vivos / The Living Dead /; El parto de Juan Rana / Juan Rana Gives Birth /; Las fi estas del aldea / The Corpus Christi Village Festival /; Una rana hace ciento / From One Frog a Hundred /; El desafío de Juan Rana / Juan Rana's Duel /; El retrato de Juan Rana / The Portrait of Juan Rana /; La boda de Juan Rana / Juan Rana's Wedding /; La loa de Juan Rana / Juan Rana's Prologue /; Juan Rana muger / Juan Rana Woman /; El triunfo de Juan Rana / The Triumph of Juan Rana /; Bibliography
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442621404; 9783110667691; 9783110490954
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442621404
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Peter E. Thompson.

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.