Abstract
The Golden Tongues adaptation initiative, founded in 2013, pairs Los Angeles writers with comedias to produce new plays for modern audiences, inspired by the originals. I argue that reworking gender dynamics is a particularly rich dimension of the process of adaptation: as the plays take on the complexities of our modern gender system, they often bring out much that is latent in the source texts as well. The essay focuses on School for Witches, or Friendship Betrayed by Madhuri Shekar (2018), adapted from María de Zayas’s La traición en la amistad and The King of Maricopa County (2020), adapted from Lope de Vega’s El castigo sin venganza by Mary Lyon Kamitaki.
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