Author: William R. BluePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The Development of Imagery in Calderón's Comedias
Author: William R. BluePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Echoes and Inscriptions
Author: Barbara SimerkaPublisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838754306
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Essays compare early modern Spanish writers to their contemporaries in other countries and to modern Spanish and Latin American literature
Comedia--art and History
Author: William R. BluePublisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Through readings of plays by six Spanish Golden Age dramatists, Blue examines relations between the work of art and its historical moment. While offering new insights into the plays, Blue tries to bridge what he sees as the two macro-currents of twentieth-century criticism: the archaelogical and the literary interpretive. He brings to bear elements of structuralism, semiotics, reader-response criticism, deconstruction, and new historical approaches on comedia. From the readings, the plays emerge as fields of con- flict on which the artistic, symbolic, and historical-cultural forces converge but do not merge either in the action or in the quick-silver, ambiguous language of the plays.
Calderon: Love Is No Laughing Matter
Author: Sean PagePublisher:
ISBN: 0856683655
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Although Calderon's comedy has received rather less attention than the other genres in which he excelled, it is widely acknowledged that his comic plays are inrivalled among his contemporaries in terms of plot structure and technical expertise; they also explore contemporary issues to an extent which has not been appreciated. "
Spanish Comedies and Historical Contexts in the 1620s
Author: William R. BluePublisher: Penn State University Press
ISBN: 9780271015460
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
The common themes, poetic images, clever and complex plots, and frenetic action, costume changes, and disguise of seventeenth-century Spanish plays make these three hundred-year-old comedies surprisingly familiar to readers today. However, Spanish comedia was popular, commercial entertainment that had to hold its audience's attention. In this study William Blue reminds us of the importance of the historical context in understanding seventeenth-century Spanish plays. The author covers twenty Spanish plays of the 1620s, a pivotal decade that saw a radical change in both the style and substance of government accompanied by new national and international orientations, changes in economic policies, demographic shifts, and a certain social mobility. By focusing precisely on the "local derails" that a contemporary audience would have immediately grasped, Blue shows what happens for today's audience if those details are seen as central rather than incidental to understanding the plays. He ultimately examines how the plays encourage a new and complex understanding of the self by presenting individuals in moments of decision and self-examination, always enmeshed in social relations as well as in the economic, legal, and other material conditions of life.
Language and the Comedia
Author: Catherine LarsonPublisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838751800
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
This study illustrates how a focus on language, which is manifest in so much of contemporary literary theory, can help to open some of the canonical texts of Spanish Golden Age theater to new readings.
South Atlantic Review
Author: Preface. A list of such come dias autos of Calderon as have been analyzed or partly translated into English (p.xxvi-xxviii) The constant prince (El principe constante) The secret in words (El secreto a voces) The Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681. Dramas. 1853. physician of his own honour (El medico de su honra) v.2. Love after death (Amar despues de la muerte) The purgatory of Saint Patrick (El purgatorio de San Patrticio) The scarf and the flower (La banda y la flor)
Author: Pedro Calderón de la BarcaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Humanistic Studies
Author: Theatre in Spain, 1490-1700
Author: Melveena McKendrickPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521429016
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
This is the first book to examine the rise of Spain's extraordinary national theatre in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in all its aspects - the commercial theatre, the court drama and the Corpus autos, the organisation of theatrical life, the playhouses themselves and their public, the literary and moral controversies, and the plays as literary texts. The book has been written for students of drama as well as Hispanists: Spanish theatre is set in its national and international context; Spanish titles and theatrical terms are translated. Considerable space has been devoted to the experimental drama of the sixteenth century before Lope de Vega. At the core of the book is a highly distinctive, successful national theatre which mirrored the energies, beliefs and anxieties of a great nation in crisis, yet at the same time granted full expression to the individual genius of its greatest exponents - Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina and Calderon de la Barca.