Author: Jacinto GrauPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
El Señor de Pigmalion, by Jacinto Grau. Edited by William Giuliano,...
Author: Jacinto GrauEl Senor de Pigmalion
Author: Jacinto GrauEl Señor de Pigmalión ... Edited by William Giuliano
Author: Jacinto GrauEl Senor de Pigmalion [and] El Burlidao Que No Se Burla
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Author: J. C. GrauStages of Desire
Author: Michael KiddPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271040580
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Within the rich tradition of Spanish theater lies an unexplored dimension reflecting themes from classical mythology. Through close readings of selected plays from early modern and twentieth-century Spanish literature with plots or characters derived from the Greco-Roman tradition, Michael Kidd shows that the concept of desire plays a pivotal role in adapting myth to the stage in each of several historical periods. In Stages of Desire, Kidd offers a new way of looking at the theater in Spain. Reviewing the work of playwrights from Juan del Encina to Luis Riaza, he suggests that desire constitutes a central element in a large number of Greco-Roman myths and shows how dramatists have exploited this to resituate ancient narratives within their own artistic and ideological horizons. Among the works he analyzes are Timoneda's Tragicomedia llamada Filomena, Castro's Dido y Eneas, and Unamuno's Fedra. Kidd explores how seventeenth-century playwrights were constrained by the conventions of the newly formed national theater, and how in the twentieth century mythological desire was exploited by playwrights engaged in upsetting the melodramatic conventions of the entrenched bourgeois theater. He also examines the role of desire both in the demythification of prominent classical heroes during the Franco regime and in the cultural critique of institutionalized discrimination in the current democratic period. Stages of Desire is an original and broad-ranging study that highlights both change and continuity in Spanish theater. By elegantly combining theory, literary history, and close textual analysis, Kidd demonstrates both the resilience of Greco-Roman myths and the continuing vitality of the Spanish stage.
El señor de Pigmalión
Author: Jacinto GrauEl señor de Pigmalión y las farsas de Jacinto Grau
Author: Samuel JossEl Señor de Pigmatión
Author: Jacinto GrauPublisher:
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Category : Spanish language
Languages : es
Pages : 232
Book Description
To Embody the Marvelous
Author: Esther FernándezPublisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 0826501818
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
In its exploration of puppetry and animation as the performative media of choice for mastering the art of illusion, To Embody the Marvelous engages with early modern notions of wonder in religious, artistic, and social contexts. From jointed, wood-carved figures of Christ, saintly marionettes that performed hagiographical dramas, experimental puppets and automata in Cervantes' Don Quixote, and the mechanical sets around which playwright Calderón de la Barca devised secular magic shows to deconstruct superstitions, these historical and fictional artifacts reenvisioned religious, artistic, and social notions that led early modern society to critically wrestle with enchantment and disenchantment. The use of animated performance objects in Spanish theatrical contexts during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries became one of the most effective pedagogical means to engage with civil society. Regardless of social strata, readers and spectators alike were caught up in a paradigm shift wherein belief systems were increasingly governed by reason—even though the discursive primacy of supernatural doxa and Christian wonder remained firmly entrenched. Thanks to their potential for motion, religious and profane puppets, automata, and mechanical stage props deployed a rationalized sense of wonder that illustrates the relationship between faith and reason, reevaluates the boundaries of fiction in art and entertainment cultures, acknowledges the rise of science and technology, and questions normative authority.
THE LIFE AND WORKS OF JACINTO GRAU.
Author: William Paul GiulianoPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description