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| Anuario de Historia del Teatro | |
|---|---|
| Title | Anuario de Historia del Teatro |
| Discipline | Theatre history |
| Language | Spanish |
| Publisher | Centro de Documentación Teatral / Instituto Nacional de las Artes Escénicas y de la Música |
| Country | Spain |
| Frequency | Annual |
| History | 1966–present |
Anuario de Historia del Teatro is a Spanish annual scholarly journal dedicated to historical research on Theatre and dramatic performance across Europe and Ibero-America. It publishes archival studies, critical editions, bibliographies, and historiographical essays that connect archival discoveries with the careers of figures such as Lope de Vega, Federico García Lorca, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, and Tirso de Molina. The journal functions as a focal point for scholarship linking institutions like the Biblioteca Nacional de España, Museo del Prado, Real Academia Española, and the Archivo General de Indias with archives in Latin America and colonial collections in Seville and Madrid.
Founded in the mid-1960s under the auspices of Spanish cultural institutions, the journal emerged amid renewed interest in early modern drama linked to projects at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universidad de Salamanca, and Universidad de Sevilla. Early volumes foregrounded archival work on companies associated with the Corral de comedias tradition, repertories of the Compañía de los Comediantes, and staging practices linked to the Siglo de Oro; contributors included scholars affiliated with the Real Academia de la Historia and curators from the Teatro Real. During the late 20th century the journal expanded its remit to encompass theatrical practices in the Americas—drawing on materials from the Archivo General de la Nación (Mexico), Biblioteca Nacional de Chile, and collections in Buenos Aires—and to engage with modernist studies around figures such as Miguel de Unamuno, Pablo Neruda, and Antonio Machado.
The journal covers a chronological span from medieval liturgical drama and Auto sacramental traditions through Renaissance court entertainments and baroque performance to 19th- and 20th-century stagecraft. Typical issues combine paleographic transcriptions from the Archivo Histórico Nacional (Spain), annotated libretti from the Teatro de la Zarzuela, research on touring circuits involving the Compañía de María Guerrero, and case studies about theatre architecture exemplified by the Teatro Cervantes (Málaga), Teatro Principal (Valencia), and Teatro de la Zarzuela (Madrid). Thematic dossiers have addressed topics such as censorship under the Francoist regime, exile communities linked to Republican exile in France, and transatlantic exchanges involving New Spain and Peru. The journal also publishes bibliographies, critical editions of plays by authors like Lope de Vega and Calderón de la Barca, and archival inventories from institutions such as the Archivo del Teatro Español.
Editorial oversight has historically involved collaboration among scholars from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Universidad de Barcelona, Universidad de Granada, and the Consejería de Cultura de la Comunidad de Madrid. Editors have included researchers associated with the Centro de Documentación Teatral and curators from the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Publication is annual, produced in Spanish with occasional multilingual abstracts to reach researchers at institutions like University of Oxford, Harvard University, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, and Universidade de São Paulo. Each volume issues an ISBN and follows peer review by experts drawn from centers such as the King's College London Department of Theatre, the Yale University Department of Drama, and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
Scholars cite the journal for primary-source transcriptions, documentary finds, and bibliographic tools used in monographs on figures like Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Rafael Alberti, and Jacinto Benavente. It appears in specialized indexes maintained by the Biblioteca Nacional de España and is listed in catalogues of the European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH) and library holdings at the Library of Congress. Reception in reviews has emphasized its archival rigor and contributions to recovering repertories from provincial stages such as the Teatro Principal (Zaragoza) and festival contexts like the Festival de Teatro Clásico de Almagro. Criticism has at times urged broader theoretical engagement with performance studies currents represented by scholars from the Performance Studies international (PSi) network and programs at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Contributors have included historians and editors who have advanced knowledge of authors and institutions: specialists on Lope de Vega and Calderón de la Barca, editors of texts by Luis Vélez de Guevara and Agustín Moreto, and archivists from the Archivo Histórico Provincial de Málaga. Noteworthy articles have analyzed staging records associated with the Comedia nueva phenomenon, presented rediscovered plays from the Cervantes Collection, and offered documentary studies on the administration of theatres such as the Teatro Español (Madrid), Gran Teatro del Liceo, and provincial playhouses in Galicia. International contributors from the Universidade de Lisboa, Università di Bologna, Universidad de Chile, and Columbia University have provided comparative perspectives on touring practices, censorship debates involving the Ley de Prensa era, and on the reception histories of dramatists including Alfredo Gutiérrez Álvarez and Enrique Jardiel Poncela.
Back issues are held in the collections of national and university libraries including the Biblioteca Nacional de España, British Library, Bibliothèque nationale de France, and major university libraries across Iberia and the Americas. Selected articles and tables of contents are catalogued via the Catálogo-OPAC systems of participating institutions and through institutional repositories at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). Microfilm and digitized reproductions of early documents featured in the journal are accessible in archival centers such as the Archivo General de Simancas and local historical archives in Toledo, Córdoba, and Seville.
Category:Theatre journals Category:Spanish-language journals