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Converso Plays of Seventeenth-Century Spain: Felipe Godínez's Queen Esther and Antonio Enríquez Gómez's Abigail the Prudent

Converso Plays of Seventeenth-Century Spain: Felipe Godínez's Queen Esther and Antonio Enríquez Gómez's Abigail the Prudent

Erdman, Harley
Erdman, Harley

Hardcover

Series: Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics

Fiction AnthologiesGeneral DramaPlays

ISBN10: 1805967584
ISBN13: 9781805967583
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Feb 3 2026
Pages: 472
Weight: 1.57
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This volume features the first-ever English translations of Felipe Godínez's Queen Esther and Antonio Enríquez Gómez's Abigail the Prudent. These lively Old Testament plays by conversos - 17th-century Christian writers of Jewish heritage - show playwrights delivering inspirational messages to converso audiences in the face of censorship and oppression. Both these playwrights, who had numerous family members persecuted by the Inquisition for covertly practicing Judaism, were themselves imprisoned by the Inquisition for the unorthodox beliefs put forward in their writings. In fact, Godínez's Queen Esther was cited by the Inquisition as heretical at the time of the playwright's arrest. This book invites such questions as: is there such a thing as an early modern converso dramaturgy? If so, how do these plays manifest it? If we imagine these plays were written in part for New Christian audiences, how do they speak to those audience members?

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