Originally presented at the 1987 meeting of the Symposium on Golden Age Theater, these contributions include: "The Role of Fortuna and Three Levels of Meaning in the Auto del Rey Assuero cuando ahorco a Aman," by Nancy Mayberry; "Magia y hermetismo en La cueva de Salamanca," by Ysla Campbell; "Symbols, Referents, and Theatrical Semantics: The Use of Hands in Comedia," by Matthew Stroud; "La representacion del sueno y de la imaginacion en el teatro historico-legendario de Lope de Vega," by Teresa J. Kirschner; "Peribanez and Economics," by William R. Blue; "Don Alvaro de Luna and the Unity of Lope de Vega's Caballero de Olmedo," by Kenneth A. Stackhouse; "Toward a Definition of Tirsian Tragedy," by Henry W. Sullivan; "Alarcon's Ganar amigos: The King, the Privado, and the Law," by Willard King; "El 'infame rito, ' del honor: War in Calderon's A secreto agravio, secreta venganza," by Carol Bingham Kirby; "Ellipsis in Calderon's La vida es sueno: The Lack of Feminine Perspectives," by Ester W. Nelson; "The Skeptical Premises of Calderon's En esta vida todo es verdad y todo mentira," by Barbara Mujica; "Calderonian Honor and the Commedia dell'Arte: Il Medico di Suo Honore," by Nancy L. D'Antuono; "The Authorship and Interpretation of the Second Part of La hija del aire," by Michael McGaha; "The Harmony/Dissonance of Calderon's El monstruo de los jardines," by Thomas A. O'Connor. Co-published with the Golden Age Spanish Drama Symposium.

Selected essays from the symposium held March 17-20, 1993 at the University of El Paso Texas, El Paso.

An annotated world theatre bibliography documenting significant theatre materials published world wide since 1945, plus an index to key names throughout the six volumes of the series.