Dr J.W. Thacker
Jonathan Thacker, M.A. (B.A., London, Ph.D., Cambridge).
Faculty Lecturer in Spanish, Fellow of Merton College, Lecturer at New and Jesus Colleges, Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Faculty of Medieval and Modern languages.
Address: Merton College, Merton Street, Oxford, OX1 4JD
Email: jonathan.thacker@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk
Tel: 01865 276389
Fax: 01865 276361
Research
Jonathan Thacker's main research interests are in the Spanish Golden Age. He has written on Cervantes and on various aspects of Golden-Age drama, including its metatheatrical elements, its performance, and its ideological content. He is an investigator on the AHRC-funded 'Out of the Wings' project which seeks to disseminate information about and encourage performance of Spanish theatre in English translation. He has acted as a consultant on productions of Golden Age theatre including at the Royal Shakespeare Company. He is Series Editor for Aris and Phillips Hispanic Classics.
Teaching
Spanish language, translation, and Golden-Age literature and culture.
Graduate Teaching
Jonathan Thacker has supervised doctoral theses on Cervantes's drama, the translation and performance of Golden Age drama, the performance history of Golden Age drama in Spain in theatre and on film, and is currently supervising doctoral work on two plays by Lope de Vega, and the theatre of the Mexican, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.
Publications
‘La puesta en escena en las ediciones del teatro del Siglo de Oro’, in El teatro del Siglo de Oro: edición e interpretación, eds. Alberto Blecua, Ignacio Arellano y Guillermo Serés (Madrid: Iberoamericana/ Frankfurt: Vervuert, 2009), pp. 455-64
‘La autoridad de la figura del loco en las comedias de Lope de Vega’, in Autoridad y poder en el Siglo de Oro, eds Ignacio Arellano, Christoph Strosetzki and Edwin Williamson (Madrid/Frankfurt: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2009), pp. 175-88
‘“Véote, y no te conozco”: the unrecognizable form of Cervantes’s El rufián dichoso’, Hispanic Research Journal, 10 (2009), 206-26
'Tirso’s Tamar Untamed: A Lesson of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Production ', in The Comedia in English: Translation and Performance , ed. Susan Paun de García and Donald R. Larson (Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2008), 164-76
Editor, with Alexander Samson , A Companion to Lope de Vega (Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2008)
'La figura de la Comedia en El rufián dichoso de Cervantes', in La comedia de santos, ed. Felipe B. Pedraza Jiménez y Almudena García González (Almagro: Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, 2008), 121-34
A Companion to Golden Age Theatre (Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2007)
'‘Lope de Vega, El cuerdo loco, and “la más discreta figura de la comedia”’', Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 81 (2004), 463-78
'‘La locura en las obras dramáticas tempranas de Lope de Vega’', in Memoria de la palabra: Actas del VI Congreso de la Asociación Internacional Siglo de Oro, ed. María Luisa Lobato y Francisco Domínguez Matito (Frankfurt and Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2004), II, 1717-30
'‘“Puedo yo con sola la vista oír leyendo”: Reading, Seeing and Hearing the Comedia’', Comedia Performance, 1 (2004), 143-73
Role-Play and the World as Stage in the Comedia (Liverpool University Press, 2002)
''"Que yo le haré de suerte que os espante, si el fingimiento a la verdad excede”: Creative Use of Art in Lope de Vega’s Los locos de Valencia (and Velázquez’s Fábula de Aracne)’', Modern Language Review, 95 (2000), 1007-18
'‘Lope de Vega’s Exemplary Early Comedy: Los locos de Valencia’', Bulletin of the Comediantes, 52 (2000), 9-29
'‘Rethinking Golden-Age Drama: The Comedia and its Contexts’', Paragraph, 22 (1999), 14-34
'‘Yearning to Play the 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, ed. E. H. Friedman, H. J. Manzari and D. D. Miller (New Orleans: University Press of the South, 1998), 223-37
'‘Comedy’s Social Compromise: Tirso’s Marta la piadosa and the Refashioning of Role’', Bulletin of the Comediantes, 47 (1995), 267-89