The Calderonian Stage
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Author | : Manuel Delgado |
Publisher | : Bucknell University Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780838753316 |
"This collection of essays invites the contemporary reader to consider the works of Pedro Calderon de la Barca (1600-81), who became the most important and influential dramatist of the second period of the Spanish Golden Age, just as Lope de Vega (1562-1635) was for the preceding generation. A follower of Lope in his youth, Calderon, as a mature playwright, developed a drama all of his own, a drama that was highly conceptual, tightly knit, symbolic, and, in many cases, spectacular. Calderon's artistry in verbal and visual symbolism made the performance of his works a feast for both the senses and the intellect." "Until now, many of Calderon's critics have focused their attention on how the poetic devices, particularly metaphors and symbols, appearing in his plays represent his philosophy or his ideas. But as some scholars of Spanish Golden Age drama have argued, the study of Calderon's theater must take into account not only the literary text, but also the physical conditions of the stage, the elements used in the representation - decor, costumes, lighting, music - and the house dynamics at each performance. In other words, each play must be considered as a composition of the soul and body, of poetry and spectacle, in which both elements support, complement, and explain one another in performance." "This is the task that has been undertaken by the contributors to this volume. By focusing on the relationship between text and performance, they have highlighted several areas that are often overlooked in traditional text-based approaches. From different perspectives, they show how Calderon gives concrete shape to the concepts and tales from the Bible, theology, mythology, the Corpus Hermeticum, emblematic literature, philosophy, and realities of civic and domestic origin."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author | : Isaac Benabu |
Publisher | : Tamesis Books |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781855660885 |
Approaches to the playtext applied to the works of Calderon and his contemporaries.
Author | : Frederick Alfred De Armas |
Publisher | : Bucknell University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780838756249 |
"This collection of essays seeks to open up this complex interdisciplinary field of study by including essays on many aspects of visual writing in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain."--Jacket.
Author | : Michael Kidd |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1999-07-01 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780271025087 |
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.
Author | : Martin Banham |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 1268 |
Release | : 1995-09-21 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521434379 |
Provides information on the history and present practice of theater in the world.
Author | : Alexander Augustine Parker |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521323347 |
Professor Parker's essays provide a wide-ranging survey of the work of Calderón, the greatest exponent of Spanish Golden Age drama.
Author | : José Eugenio Borao Mateo |
Publisher | : Hong Kong University Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2009-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9622090834 |
This book focuses in the Spanish presence in Taiwan during the years 1626-1642. It examines the motives which drove the Spaniards to come to Taiwan. There were two main reasons for the Spaniards to come to Taiwan from Manila; firstly, so that the civil authorities might counterbalance the Dutch expansion, which since 1625 had been threatening the traditional trade between Fujian and Manila; and secondly, to enable missionaries to find a staging post to enter Japan in moments of strong persecution, and to create an alternative entry point into China.
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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 522 |
Release | : 2021-11-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004489142 |
Signs of Change: Transformations of Christian Traditions and their Representation in the Arts, 1000–2000 focuses on the changing relationships between what gradually emerged as the Arts and Christianity, the latter term covering both a stream of ideas and its institutions. The book as a whole is addressed to a general academic audience concerned with issues of cultural history, while the individual essays are also intended as scholarly contributions within their own fields. A collaborative effort by twenty-five European and American scholars representing disciplines ranging from aesthetics to the history of art and architecture, from literature, music and the theatre to classics, church history, and theology, the volume is an interdisciplinary study of intermedial phenomena, generally in larger cultural and intellectual contexts. The focus of topics extends from single concrete objects to sets of abstract concepts and values, and from a single moment in time to an entire millennium. While Signs of Change acknowledges the importance of synthesizing efforts essential to hermeneutically informed scholarship, in order to counterbalance generalized historical narratives with detailed investigations, broad accounts are juxtaposed with specialized research projects. The deliberately unchronological grouping of contributions underlines the effort to further discussion about methodologies for writing cultural history.
Author | : David Jonathan Hildner |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9027217211 |
Both reason and exalted passions become the preserve of noble blood in Calderón's plays. The concern of his characters that they not commit a "low" action, is not simply a Christian concern with avoiding sin. The characters are much more concerned with practicing a virtue which will distinguish them from the vulgar.
Author | : Sally Harvey |
Publisher | : Tamesis |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781855660342 |
Critical study of Cuban novelist and Proust's influence on selected works.