Monarchy, Political Culture, and Drama in Seventeenth-Century Madrid: Theater of NegotiationRoutledge, 2016. ápr. 15. - 181 oldal In early modern Spain, theater reached the height of its popularity during the same decades in which Spanish monarchs were striving to consolidate their power. Jodi Campbell uses the dramatic production of seventeenth-century Madrid to understand how ordinary Spaniards perceived the political developments of this period. Through a study of thirty-three plays by four of the most popular playwrights of Madrid (Pedro Caldern de la Barca, Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla, Juan de Matos Fragoso, and Juan Bautista Diamante), Campbell analyzes portrayals of kingship during what is traditionally considered to be the age of absolutism and highlights the differences between the image of kingship cultivated by the monarchy and that presented on Spanish stages. A surprising number of plays performed and published in Madrid in the seventeenth century, Campbell shows, featured themes about kingship: debates over the qualities that make a good king, tests of a king's abilities, and stories about the conflicts that could arise between the personal interests of a king and the best interest of his subjects. Rather than supporting the absolutist and centralizing policies of the monarchy, popular theater is shown here to favor the idea of reciprocal obligations between subjects and monarch. This study contributes new evidence to the trend of recent scholarship that revises our views of early modern Spanish absolutism, arguing for the significance of the perspectives of ordinary people to the realm of politics. |
Részletek a könyvből
1 - 5 találat összesen 17 találatból.
. oldal
... dramatists since the early Renaissance had been careful to follow the guidelines set by classical Greek and Latin playwrights, the writers of the Spanish comedia began to bend the rules. According to classical dramatic precepts, which ...
... dramatists since the early Renaissance had been careful to follow the guidelines set by classical Greek and Latin playwrights, the writers of the Spanish comedia began to bend the rules. According to classical dramatic precepts, which ...
. oldal
... dramatists—and their public—found these stories appealing and understood them to be lessons about how to resolve or avoid these conflicts. 6 Recent scholarship illuminates other facets of the close ties between early modern drama and ...
... dramatists—and their public—found these stories appealing and understood them to be lessons about how to resolve or avoid these conflicts. 6 Recent scholarship illuminates other facets of the close ties between early modern drama and ...
. oldal
... dramatists dealt with the question of kingly authority as much as political writers did, although their experiments took a different form: they could portray trustworthy kings and tyrannical kings, ideal situations and insoluble ...
... dramatists dealt with the question of kingly authority as much as political writers did, although their experiments took a different form: they could portray trustworthy kings and tyrannical kings, ideal situations and insoluble ...
. oldal
... dramatists, considering them only lesstalented imitators of the few who formed the Golden Age canon. Now, though, they faced the question of whether these lesser-known dramatists were fundamentally different from the most famous writers ...
... dramatists, considering them only lesstalented imitators of the few who formed the Golden Age canon. Now, though, they faced the question of whether these lesser-known dramatists were fundamentally different from the most famous writers ...
. oldal
... dramatists to date, and its focus is on the internal structure of the comedia rather than its social context. It is important to remember that what we think of as the Golden Age canon does not bear much resemblance to what was actually ...
... dramatists to date, and its focus is on the internal structure of the comedia rather than its social context. It is important to remember that what we think of as the Golden Age canon does not bear much resemblance to what was actually ...
Tartalomjegyzék
The World of the Stage | |
Competing Ideals of Kingship | |
Evaluations of the Practice of Kingship | |
The Curtain Falls | |
Más kiadások - Összes megtekintése
Monarchy, Political Culture, and Drama in Seventeenth-century Madrid ... Jodi Campbell Korlátozott előnézet - 2006 |
Monarchy, Political Culture, and Drama in Seventeenth-Century Madrid ... Jodi Campbell Korlátozott előnézet - 2016 |
Monarchy, Political Culture, and Drama in Seventeenth-Century Madrid ... Professor Jodi Campbell Korlátozott előnézet - 2013 |
Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
absolutist acting companies Alcaldes de Casa Alegio Alfonso Antonio argued arrendadores audience authority autor de comedias Barca Bautista Diamante behavior Casa y Corte characters Charles comedias nuevas contemporary corrales Council of Castile court crown culture Diego drama dramatists duke Early Modern Europe Enrique Federico Francisco García Golden Age honor ingenios de España interests Jornadas de teatro José Juan Bautista Diamante Junta justice kill king king’s kingdom kingship libro Lope de Vega Lope’s Madrid Maravall Mariana of Austria Matos Fragoso McKendrick monarchy Olivares palace passion Pedro Calderón performances Philip Philip IV plays playwrights plot political theory popular presented prince principal Príncipe public theaters published queen reign reputation Retiro Rojas Zorrilla royal ruler Sancho scholars Semíramis seventeenth century Siglo de Oro siglo XVII sixteenth social Spain Spaniards Spanish Spanish Golden Age stage story subjects theatrical themes theorists throne Tirso Tirso de Molina tyranny