Allen, John Jay. La piedra Rosetta del teatro comercial europeo: El Teatro Cervantes de Alcala de Henares. Madrid: Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2015. 150 pp.This book is the latest contribution by John Jay Allen to our knowledge of the material conditions of Golden Age theater, a field in which he is the undisputed living expert and the importance of which it would be difficult to overestimate. Here Allen tells three stories. The first is about the discovery of a 1601 corral under the superimposed layers of an eighteenthcentury coliseum, a nineteenth-century romantic theater, and a twentiethcentury movie house, plus the effort by the three students who made the discovery to reconstruct it, with the assistance and direction of John Varey. The second is about the construction and structure of the corral, built by Francisco Sanchez, an illiterate carpenter, following the Corral de la Cruz, which he had seen in Madrid. The third reiterates Allen's previous work on the layout of corrales, with particular emphasis on their relationship to adjoining houses, and how this affected the staging of individual comedias such as La vida sueno and Fuenteovejuna.The first story is a saga with a sad ending. The struggles of the devoted students and John Varey, opposed or ignored by uncaring bureaucrats and ambitious politicians, were long and tortuous, in spite of the support of the international and national community of experts on Golden Age theater. After decades of disheartening failures the corral was restored, but not before the death of Varey, who never saw his labors come to fruition, nor was his personal library, which he had donated to the project, preserved at the site. The library ultimately was dispersed and lost, yet the theater is there, with its three incarnations restored, available for Spanish and foreign companies to stage classical and modern plays.Sanchez's construction of the corral is crucial, because this is the only remaining vestige of a historical Golden Age theater, and its rebuilding is a unique process on a European scale. Shakespeare's Globe in London burned down, as we know, so what we have is a replica built on the site following documents of the period. The stones on the patio of the corral in Alcala are the same ones on which Cervantes reports to have stood; hence, "Rosetta Stone" in the title of the book. The carpenter-whose illiteracy I question, for how could he have taken and preserved measurements?-followed the basic plan of the Madrid corrales, with the aposentos, cazuela, basic stage, bleachers on the side, patio for the mosqueteros, and, most importantly, ways to collect money from the spectators. …

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表演重建与西班牙黄金时代戏剧：劳拉·维德勒 (Laura Vidler) 的复兴与修正

艾伦，约翰杰伊。La piedra Rosetta del Teatro comercial europeo: El Teatro Cervantes de Alcala de Henares。马德里：伊比利亚美洲 Vervuert，2015 年。150 页。这本书是约翰·杰·艾伦 (John Jay Allen) 对我们对黄金时代剧院物质条件了解的最新贡献，他是该领域无可争议的生活专家，并且它的重要性难以高估。艾伦在这里讲了三个故事。第一个是关于在 18 世纪体育馆、19 世纪浪漫剧院和 20 世纪电影院的叠加层下发现 1601 年的畜栏，以及发现该发现的三名学生在帮助下重建它的努力和约翰·瓦雷的指导。第二个是关于畜栏的建造和结构，由弗朗西斯科·桑切斯建造，一个不识字的木匠，追随他在马德里见过的 Corral de la Cruz。第三个重申了艾伦之前关于畜栏布局的工作，特别强调了它们与相邻房屋的关系，以及这如何影响了 La vida sueno 和 Fuenteovejuna 等个人喜剧的上演。第一个故事是一个结局悲伤的传奇。尽管得到了黄金时代戏剧专家的国际和国内社区的支持，但忠诚的学生和约翰瓦雷的斗争，被冷漠的官僚和雄心勃勃的政治家反对或忽视，长期而曲折。经过数十年令人沮丧的失败，畜栏得到了修复，但在瓦雷去世之前，他从未看到他的工作取得成果，他捐赠给该项目的个人图书馆也没有保存在现场。图书馆最终被分散和遗失，但剧院还在那里，它的三个化身得到了修复，可供西班牙和外国公司上演古典和现代戏剧。桑切斯建造的畜栏至关重要，因为这是一个仅存的遗迹历史悠久的黄金时代剧院，其重建是欧洲规模的独特过程。正如我们所知，伦敦的莎士比亚环球剧场被烧毁，所以我们拥有的是根据那个时期的文件在现场建造的复制品。阿尔卡拉畜栏露台上的石头与塞万提斯报告所站立的石头相同。因此，书名中有“罗塞塔石碑”。那个木匠——我怀疑他是文盲，因为他怎么会测量和保存测量值？——遵循马德里畜栏的基本计划，和 aposentos，cazuela、基本舞台、侧面看台、供清真寺使用的露台，以及最重要的是向观众收钱的方法。…