Resources/Educational Resources
Classroom material put together by teachers who have already used it: lesson plans, plot summaries, slides, images and films. Everything is free to download and free to adapt.
Index
What you need before you walk in.
Lesson Plans
One session each, on meter, allegory, convent theater, honor and much else, with objectives and activities.
PowerPoint Presentations
Ready to project: baroque art, character lists, objectives and tactics, the teachers workshop.
Bibliography for the Classroom
Books and articles chosen to get you up to speed without disappearing into the scholarship.
Tirso’s Characters and Plots
Plots and casts of Tirso’s 61 comedias, with lists of characters by name, surname and category (Jean S. Chittenden).
What gets read, screened and handed out.
Play Texts
Classroom-ready editions in PDF. The full archive of 249 plays lives in Digital Play Texts.
Play Summaries
Plot summaries in short and long form, to place a play before reading it.
Comic Books
Illustrated, simplified versions of the plot, to help students follow a performance.
TV Movies
The three Cervantes interludes filmed by The Barrack, in Spanish with English subtitles.
Pictures
Autos sacramentales, Golden Age art, landscapes and maps, stage machinery, woodcuts.
Poster Examples
Posters from student productions, useful as models when a class designs its own.
For taking the comedia to schools and general audiences.
Outreach Guides
Playwright biographies and companion guides written for audiences meeting these plays for the first time.
Essays
Short pieces on why this repertoire is still taught and still staged.
Do you have classroom material that works? Write to us at secretary@comedias.org and we will add it.
