A panoramic, state-of-the-art handbook in English destined to chart a course for future work in the field of early modern Hispanic theater studies. Contains 18 crucial essays distributed among 4 wide-ranging sections on Origins, Themes, Places, and Intersections.

Hilaire Kallendorf, Ph.D. (2000) in Comparative Literature, Princeton University, is Professor of Hispanic and Religious Studies at Texas A&M University. Her books include Exorcism and Its Texts, Conscience on Stage, Sins of the Fathers, and A New Companion to Hispanic Mysticism (Brill, 2010).