Next Friday, March 14, Dr. Sáez Raposo will give a lecture titled "Towards the Heritage Recovery of Spanish Classical Theatre: The Courtly Practice of the Baroque" in the Boardroom of the Faculty of Philology, Translation, and Communication at 12:00 PM.
Francisco Sáez Raposo is the Director of the Theatre Institute of Madrid and a Professor at the Complutense University of Madrid. A specialist in Spanish classical theatre, he has been a professor or contracted researcher at several universities and research centers in both the United States (Duke University and Vanderbilt University) and Spain (University of Valencia, Autonomous University of Barcelona, and CSIC). He has also been a visiting professor at various Italian and French universities.
He has published critical editions of plays by Lope de Vega (Santiago el Verde and Lo fingido verdadero), Pedro Calderón de la Barca (Un castigo en tres venganzas), Tirso de Molina (Amar por razón de Estado), and Agustín Moreto (Los jueces de Castilla and El lindo don Diego). Additionally, he has studied short theatrical pieces by Luis Quiñones de Benavente, Antonio de Solís, Agustín Moreto, Jerónimo de Cáncer, etc.
In recent years, he has focused on the study of the (re)creation of the dramatic space in the theatrical texts of the 16th and 17th centuries, as well as issues of staging, both from a historical or archaeological point of view and in their materialization in current productions. On these topics, he has directed four competitive research projects funded by national and international institutions.
He has also been the curator of two exhibitions related to this subject. One of them, titled Todo Madrid es teatro. Los escenarios de la Villa y Corte en el Siglo de Oro, was sponsored by the Community of Madrid and held at the Lope de Vega House Museum (Madrid) in 2018; the other, titled Con descuido cuidadoso»: el universo del actor en tiempos de Cervantes, was sponsored by the Community of Madrid and the National Library of Spain and was held at the Museo Casa Natal de Cervantes (Alcalá de Henares) from October 2020 to February 2021.
