Contents

Preface

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Chapter 1 The Significance of Celestina

Text, Origins and Sources

Chapter 2 The Early Editions and the Authorship of Celestina

Chapter 3 The Poetics of Voice, the Performance, and the Meaning of Celestina

Chapter 4 Quotation, Plagiarism, Allusion, and Reminiscence: Intertextuality in Celestina

Chapter 5 Theater Without a Stage: Celestina and the Humanistic Comedy

Chapter 6 Celestina in the Context of Fifteenth-Century Castilian Vernacular Humanism

Chapter 7 Minerva’s Dog and Other Problematic Points in Celestina’s Text

Chapter 8 Calisto and Leriano in Love

Chapter 9 The Story of Hero and Leander: A Possible Unknown Source of Celestina

Themes and Readings

Chapter 10 “Aquellos antigos libros”: Approaches to Parody in Celestina

Chapter 11 Risky Business: The Politics of Prostitution in Celestina

Chapter 12 A Guidebook for Two Cities: The Physical and the Political Urban Space in Celestina

Chapter 13 Magic in Celestina

Chapter 14 Lovesickness and the Problematical Text of Celestina, Act 1

Chapter 15 Jesus and Mary, Christian Prayer, and the Saints in Celestina

Chapter 16 Eating, Drinking, and Consuming in the Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea

Influence and Posterity

Chapter 17 Modernity and Celestina: The Future of Our Past and of Our Present

Chapter 18 Celestina as a Precursor to the Picaresque

Chapter 19 Early Responses to Celestina: Translations and Commentary

Chapter 20 Celestina’s Continuations, Adaptations, and Influences

Chapter 21 Celestina and Agustín Arrieta’s China Poblana: Mexico’s Female Icon Revisited

Chapter 22 The Images of Celestina and Its Visual Culture

Chapter 23 Celestina in Film and Television

Electronic Resources, Editions, and Select Bibliography

Index