Introduction / Bárbara Mujica -- PART I : Props and Space. 1. Supplementary Aesthetics, Affordances, and Dynamic Props : Added Objects in Isabel Ramos’s El perro del hortelano (2004) / Christopher D. Gascón -- 2. Sketching Portugalidade : Reinar después de morir for the Twenty-First Century Stage / Esther Fernández -- 3. Staging the Comedia de magia in the Reign of Felipe V / Susan Paun de García -- 4. Incarcerated Performance : The Space and Context of Prison as Stage / Megan M. Echevarría and Iñaki Pérez-Ibáñez -- PART II : Costume. 5. “¡Dios me guarde, que estoy bella!” : Los empeños de una casa and Castaño's Performance of Pretty / Mindy Badía -- 6. Dressing the Comedia : Textual, Archival, and Practical Considerations / Emily C. Tobey -- 7. The Guardainfante Exposes More than Legs : Adapting Tirso’s Marta the Divine for the Stage / Elizabeth Cruz Petersen -- PART III : Staging Archetypes. 8. (Re)Performing Isabel I of Castile : Pious Cruelty, Saintly Hypocrisy, and Lope de Vega’s El niño inocente de La Guardia / Susan L. Fischer -- 9. A Bicephalic Melancholiac : Acting a Royal Pathology in Spanish Golden Age Drama / Eduardo Paredes Ocampo -- 10. Staging Female Melancholia : Calderón’s No hay burlas con el amor / Bárbara Mujica -- 11. “Streleros” buenos y malos : Staging Astrology in Early Modern Spanish Theater / Valerie Hegstrom and Dale J. Pratt -- PART IV : Music, Movement, and Adaptation. 12. Reading Music in Cervantes’s Entremeses / Yoel Castillo Botello -- 13. Finding the Beat in ¡Risas aquí y después, ganancia! by The Grupo La Hormiga / Sharon D. Voros -- 14. Juan Ruiz de Alarcón’s Mudarse por mejorarse and Changes over Time / Edward H. Friedman