A Companion to Early Modern Hispanic Theater.
A panoramic, state-of-the-art handbook in English destined to chart a course for future work in the field of early modern Hispanic theater studies. Contains 18 crucial essays distributed among 4 wide-ranging sections on Origins, Themes, Places, and Intersections.
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| Language: | English |
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Leiden :
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2014.
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| Series: | Renaissance Society of America.
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Table of Contents:
- List of Contributors; List of Figures; Introduction; Part One Origins; Celestina as Closet Drama; Courtly Love and the Comedia; The Comedia and the Classics; Spanish Sacramental Plays: A Study of Their Evolution; Part Two Themes; Honor/Honra Revisited; The Wife-Murder Plays; 'Til Play Do Us Part: Marriage, Law, and the Comedia; Onstage/Backstage: Animals in the Golden Age Comedia; Entremeses and Other Forms of Teatro Breve; Part Three Places; On Speed and Restlessness: Calderón's Urban Kaleidoscope.
- The New World in Lope de Vega's Columbus and St. Christopher: El nuevo mundo descubierto por Cristóbal ColónThe Quest for Spiritual Transcendence in the Theater of Gil Vicente; Lope de Vega and The Martyrs of Japan; Part Four Intersections; Picaresque Sensibility and the Comedia; Emblems at the Golden Age Theater; Science, Instrumentality, and Chaotics in Early Modern Spanish Drama; Melancholy, the Comedia, and Early Modern Psychology; Jacques Lacan and Tragic Drama in the Golden Age of Spain; Chapter Summaries; Select Bibliography; Index.