Ann L. Mackenzie

Álvaro Cubillo de Aragón, A Playwright in the School of Calderón

‘Over-generalization’, comments Alex Longhurst in a recent review-article, ‘is after all a sin to which all those of us who try to identify and define literary trends and movements have to plead guilty’.1 For well over a century literary critics have traditionally, even routinely, divided the dramatists of the Golden Age in Spain into two groups or schools, these being, as every Hispanist knows, the School of Lope and the School of Calderón. Developments in criticism in recent decades, leading to more emphasis on literary theory than on literary history, have stimulated uncertainties and reservations about convenient grouping into movements and schools, which have not been without effects upon how Golden-Age dramatists are observed. Yet, the theorists and avowed non-traditionalist critics are probably as guilty of the ‘sin’—if sin it is—of ‘overgeneralization’, or of categorization, as are the more traditionally minded among us. As a traditionalist, I welcome recent signs, among literary critics in the States at least, of a renewed interest in literary movements or schools, bringing with it a reawakened concern to examine those aspects of a text—such as characterization—which previously were regarded as vitally important but which have been rather out of favour in recent decades.2 The labels or descriptions ‘School of Lope’ or ‘School of Calderón’,

Calderón and his Theatre: major Concerns in Current Studies

El año 2000 se cumple el IV Centenario del nacimiento de don Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600–1681). Desde el III Centenario de su muerte, celebrado en 1981, ha pasado el tiempo suficiente para abordar, en la apertura de un nuevo milenio, una serie de nuevas actividades que se centren en la vasta y portentosa obra del poeta, intentando, después del extraordinario impulso que significó el Congreso Internacional de 1981 (Madrid, CSIC), una puesta al día y una definitiva recuperación de la figura de don Pedro, uno de los nombres centrales de la cultura universal.1

Concerning Juan de Zabaleta and a Recent First Edition of La honra vive en los muertos

Though certain of his prose-works have been edited in recent years (notably, El dia de fiesta por la tarde and Errores celebrados), 1 only two dramas, among some eighteen comedias which Juan de Zabaleta composed either individually or in collaboration with other playwrights, have been published to date in critical editions. These dramas are: Troya abrasada; 2 and La honra vive en los muertos, the play to which Dr Ana Elejabeitia has recently dedicated her editorial attention. The following observation made by Juventino Caminero, in a brief prologue to Dr Elejabeitias ‘palaeographic edition’, is therefore undeniably accurate: ‘Juan de Zabaleta ha sido victimado por la desatencion de la critica’. Such lack of critical interest in Zabaletas comedias from specialists of the Golden Age is profoundly to be regretted and ought urgently to be rectified. Admittedly, when he is viewed objectively from a modern perspective, Zabaleta is revealed as a dramatist lacking in first-class ability. Nevertheless, he was mu...

Preamble to Part II

Abstract This Preamble introduces Part I of Studies on Spain, Portugal and Latin America in Memory of William C. Atkinson—the Part which mainly contains William Atkinson’s own memoirs edited, annotated and made widely available for the first time. Mostly written c.1971–1972, the memoirs cover all five decades in Atkinson’s career. In Chapter 1 he records his first-hand experiences of Spain in the mid 1920s; while not only in Chapter 5 but in an additional article, he sets down the impressions he formed of Latin America during five extensive lecture tours undertaken there between 1946 and 1971. In Chapter 3, titled ‘One Man’s War’, he describes what he did during World War II, while seconded to the Foreign Office: though based in Oxford, he was sent on several fact-finding missions to Spain and Portugal. In two other chapters, he recalls his experiences as Stevenson Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Glasgow, in the period from 1932 through to the early 1960s. Also published in Part I are archival documents and letters relevant to his memoirs; and there is an illuminating account by John C. McIntyre of ‘Professor William C. Atkinson (WCA) As Remembered by Some Former Students (1957–1962)’.

Introduction II: William C. Atkinson (1902–1992) Scholar of Spain, Portugal and Latin America

Abstract In ‘Introduction II. William C. Atkinson (1902–1992): Scholar of Spain, Portugal and Latin America’, Ann L. Mackenzie conducts a detailed survey of William Atkinson’s life and career, from his beginnings in Belfast, Northern Ireland through to his death, aged ninety, in 1992. Mackenzie’s survey is derived mainly from first-hand research into Atkinson’s memoirs and scholarly publications; she has also utilized obituaries, reviews and documentary evidence preserved in the archives at Queen’s University Belfast, where he obtained his degrees, and at Glasgow University where he was Stevenson Professor of Hispanic Studies (1932–1972). Among his many services to Hispanism, Mackenzie highlights his pioneering role in establishing Portuguese Studies and, especially, Latin American Studies, as principal fields of learning in British universities. He is also remembered for taking over the editorship of the Bulletin of Spanish Studies when its founder-editor E. Allison Peers died in 1952, thereby ensuring its survival. Mackenzie assesses in detail Atkinson’s numerous scholarly publications—not only his books, editions and translations, but also his articles and reviews in major journals. His most influential works, in her view, were his biographical and critical study of the sixteenth-century Spanish Humanist, Hernán Pérez de Oliva, his History of Spain and Portugal and his prose-translation of Camões’ The Lusiads. Among his most memorable activities were the five lengthy visits he made to Latin America between 1946 and 1971: these lecture tours mostly funded by the British Council, took him to all twenty Latin-American countries several times over. Mackenzie also records what he did during World War II, when he was seconded to the Foreign Office. Though based mainly at Oxford, he was sent on several fact-finding missions to Spain and Portugal. Mackenzie also writes about Atkinson in situ at Glasgow University where as Professor and Head of Hispanic Studies, and latterly also as Director of the Latin-American Institute (established in 1966), he showed an exemplary interest in the welfare of his students, and in assisting them to pursue careers in banking, commerce, school-teaching, the Civil Service and, especially, Higher Education. Many of his graduates took up lectureships and professorships in universities, both at home and overseas, where they trained more academics in their turn, as specialists in Spain, Portugal and Latin America.

Introduction I: A Festschrift for William Atkinson

Abstract In ‘Introduction I. A Festschrift for William Atkinson’, Ann L. Mackenzie begins by explaining why William Atkinson had not previously received a Festschrift—neither upon his retirement in 1972 nor even following his death in 1992. She goes on to provide compelling reasons for rectifying this omission, and for doing so in the form of a Special Double Issue of the Bulletin of Spanish Studies. She refers in particular to Atkinson’s pioneering role in establishing Portuguese Studies and Latin American Studies as major fields of learning in UK universities. She also points to the principal part he played in 1953 to ensure the continuation of the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies after the death of E. Allison Peers, its founder-editor. Mackenzie is also informative about the contents of the Festschrift and its contributors, some of whom were once students of Atkinson in the Department of Hispanic Studies at Glasgow University. Other contributors either graduated later from that same Department at Glasgow or used to be members of its staff. Mackenzie goes on to discuss the topics, authors, periods and countries dealt with in the contributed articles, all of which, in some significant respect or degree, reflect Atkinson’s own publications on the literatures, cultures and histories of Spain, Portugual and Latin America.

‘Who? Me. A Memoir’ Donald Leslie Shaw (1930–2017)

Donald Leslie Shaw was a unique force in Hispanic Studies. No one who came in contact with him was likely to forget his ability to enlighten, provoke, entertain, shock and challenge one to think more deeply and more broadly about literature. He took great delight in his ability to ‘épater la bourgeoisie’ (and anyone else within hearing range) and was notoriously frugal (he cut his own hair to save money). He loudly proclaimed his ‘hate’ for certain individuals (the list changed periodically, though often included his mother, E. A. Peers, W. C. Atkinson, P. E. Russell, and the American coauthor of this remembrance), but was fiercely devoted to his wife Mariella, his children Andrew and Sylvia, and his students. He was certainly one of the most enthusiastically non-politically correct figures ever to populate British and American higher education. Don was born on 11 February 1930 in Manchester, and he studied at Stand Grammar School and the University of Manchester (which locals still called ‘Owens’), where he earned his first-class honours BA in French and Spanish. At Manchester, having secured a postgraduate scholarship, he began to study the work of Pío Baroja, the subject of his Master’s thesis, and from that stage developed a deep interest in the theme of ‘angustia’ in modern Spanish letters. His researches for his thesis took him to Spain, and to Madrid, where, to his delight, he interviewed Baroja several times, discussions which, as a young researcher, he found invaluable. His research MA, ‘A Critical Assessment of Pío Baroja as a Novelist’, supervised by Margaret Raventós, of whom he had affectionate and positive memories, was awarded in 1954. Another significant influence at Manchester University was Luis Meana, to whom he was enduringly grateful for introducing him to Argentine literature, and, in particular, to Borges. He spent two years in the RAF (1953–1955), to comply with National Service requirements. He then took up his first academic post at Trinity College Dublin as a Junior (Assistant) Lecturer in the department headed by Edward Riley. By the time he completed his doctoral thesis on ‘Angustia in

Margaret Ann Rees (1933–2010)

Born in Southport, where as a child she was to witness German bombers unloading what remained of cargoes chiefly intended for Liverpool, Ann, as she was invariably known to friends and colleagues, was baptised as Margaret Ann Williams, the daughter of a Welsh-speaking schoolmaster Benjamin Williams and his wife, Minnie. Her mother’s family, who were members of the Plymouth Brethren, owned Bates’ department store, and her grandfather had at an earlier stage been approached by a certain Mr Spencer with a view to a merger! Had they acquiesced, Ann’s future, and that of her brother Trevor, might have taken a very different course. What did happen was that from her school at Southport High School for Girls, Ann, having gained an Open Scholarship, moved on to Westfield College, University of London, where, from 1951, she studied for a degree in French language and literature, with subsidiary Spanish. She could have gone to Cambridge, but that would have entailed waiting an extra year before beginning her studies and, in retrospect, she was very pleased that she had opted, instead, for Westfield College, where she had the privilege and benefit of being taught in the French Department by W. D. Elcock, and in Spanish by John Varey. As an undergraduate, Ann, as Elcock wrote, ‘stood out from her fellows by virtue of an exceptional literary talent, expressed in her writing both in English and in French’, and twice ‘won essay prizes open to the competition of all students in the College’. It was John Varey, however, who showed Ann that Spanish literature was at least as interesting as French. Inspired by Varey’s teaching and influence, after

Bulletin of Spanish/Hispanic Studies Subject Indexes of Articles And Reviews 1923–2003 A Further Note for Users

Following from the publication, in 2008, of The ‘Bulletin of Spanish/ Hispanic Studies’ 1923 2003: Author Indexes of Articles and Reviews, within one large volume, which has been favourably received and is widely used by Hispanists, the Bulletin’s publishers were persuaded to allocate more printed pages than had originally been planned for, to the journal’s Subject Indexes of Articles and Reviews. Instead, therefore, of a reference-work in three parts, users will now have at their disposal, besides the journal’s History (surveyed in Volume I) and its Author Indexes (provided in Volume II), two further substantial books which will contain the Bulletin’s Subject Indexes. With the publication of these Subject Indexes in well over a thousand pages (Volumes III and IV), the compilers have concluded their large-scale task of documenting the history and contents of the Bulletin between 1923 and 2003. Thanks to the additional space placed at our disposal, we have put together a Subject Index of Reviews containing much more information than we had initially thought it would be possible to provide. Thus, we have inserted into that Subject Index cross-references which, in both type and number, are comparable to those included in the Subject Index of

Bulletin of Spanish/Hispanic StudiesAuthor and Subject Indexes 1923–2003 A Note for Users

The compilers of these Indexes have had, obviously, a much larger task to perform than that done by their predecessors in compiling the Fifty-Year Index 1923 73. Geoffrey Ribbans and his colleagues dealt altogether with about four thousand items of which one thousand or so were articles and the rest reviews. In cataloguing all eighty volumes of the Bulletin published between 1923 and 2003, Byrne, Mackenzie and Whitaker have had to handle at least three thousand articles, notes and other features and more than nine thousand book reviews. ‘Handle’ is the correct term for what they have done. They have verified ‘hands-on’ every bit of information supplied. In other words, between them they have examined every one of the more than twelve thousand contributions they have listed, so as to create, for the benefit of users everywhere, the most comprehensive and accurate Indexes possible of the Bulletin of Spanish/Hispanic Studies 1923 2003.