Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies

Dr Jonathan W Thacker

Dr Thacker teaches courses on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish literature. His specialisation is the theatre in Spain's Golden Age and Cervantes. He has translated Miguel Cervantes, Exemplary Novels, III, Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1992 (introduction and translations with Michael Thacker), Tirso de Molina, Damned for Dispair, Bath: Absolute Press, 1992 (co-translator with Laurence Boswell). He has published 'Comedy's Social Compromise: Tirso's Marta la piadosa and the Refashioning of Role', Bulletin of the Comediantes, 47 (1995), 267-89, 'Yearning to Play a Part: Social Role-play in Guillén de Castro's La fuerza de la costumbre' in A Society on Stage: Essays on Spanish Golden Age Drama New Orleans: University Press of the South, 1998, pp 223-37, '"... Now You Don't": Calderón's La dama duende and the manipulation of the visible', Journal of the Institute of Romance Studies, 5 (1997), 1998. His research interests include performance of Spanish Golden-Age drama and its relationship to the social history of the seventeenth century in Spain.

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