Worth its Weight in Gold: The Incredible Success of BYU’s Spanish Golden Age Theater Program

Authors

Jared White, Brigham Young University
Dr. Dale Pratt, Brigham Young University

Keywords

Spanish, Golden Age, theater program, Spain

College

Humanities

Department

Spanish and Portuguese

Abstract

During the first quarter of 2005, Brigham Young University’s Spanish Golden Age Theater program performed the theatrical work El caballero de Olmedo, a seventeenth-century production by Lope de Vega, a renowned Spanish playwright. The Golden Age Theater program not only performed the play, but also published a play guide, traveled to Idaho, Texas, Utah, and Mexico, and introduced the Golden Age, giving a small Outreach workshop on key playwrights and occurrences during seventeenth-century Spain, to various elementary, middle, and high schools. In my project, I visited Salamanca, Spain, and shared with the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP) how we accomplished the various tasks associated with our interpretation of El caballero de Olmedo, hopefully enabling the various professors to implement similar programs in their colleges and institutions.

Recommended Citation

White, Jared and Pratt, Dr. Dale (2013) "Worth its Weight in Gold: The Incredible Success of BYU’s Spanish Golden Age Theater Program," Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2013: Iss. 1, Article 980.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2013/iss1/980