Abstract:

Emphasizing the role of audiences in shaping the meaning and social function of performance, this essay presents some suggestions for deepening the discussion of race in our undergraduate classes on "Golden Age" theater. These suggestions include enticing students with recognizable names and accessible texts—Cervantes's El retablo de las maravillas is one of my choices—and then nudging them to consider canonical works in dialogue both with representations of Black characters and with the diasporic experience of free and enslaved Black people in Spain during the early modern period. We should encourage class discussion that draws early modern primary sources into the racial politics of the present. We should likewise investigate and historicize the relationship between religion and race as conceptual categories. These sorts of pedagogical adjustments are part of the effort to rethink the methodological presuppositions and canons that have long defined—and constrained—early modern Iberian studies.

 抽象的：

本文强调观众在塑造表演的意义和社会功能中的作用，并提出了一些在我们的“黄金时代”戏剧本科课程中深化种族讨论的建议。这些建议包括用可识别的名字和易于理解的文本来吸引学生——塞万提斯的《El retablo de las maravillas》是我的选择之一——然后促使他们在对话中考虑经典作品，既与黑人角色的代表，又与自由和被奴役的黑人的流散经历进行对话。现代早期的西班牙人。我们应该鼓励课堂讨论，将早期现代的主要资料纳入当前的种族政治。我们同样应该将宗教与种族之间的关系作为概念范畴进行研究和历史化。这些教学方法的调整是重新思考长期定义和限制早期现代伊比利亚研究的方法论预设和规范的努力的一部分。