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. |
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... Kings in Theory: Competing Ideals of Kingship 4. Kings in Action: Evaluations of the Practice of Kingship 5. Conclusion: The Curtain Falls Bibliography Index Acknowledgements Just as there is much more behind the creation.
... Kings in Theory: Competing Ideals of Kingship 4. Kings in Action: Evaluations of the Practice of Kingship 5. Conclusion: The Curtain Falls Bibliography Index Acknowledgements Just as there is much more behind the creation.
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... kings as principal characters. Some of these plays featured well-known stories about historical figures, such as Pedro I of Castile, Alexander the Great, or Edward III of England. Many featured mythical kings from ancient Greek and ...
... kings as principal characters. Some of these plays featured well-known stories about historical figures, such as Pedro I of Castile, Alexander the Great, or Edward III of England. Many featured mythical kings from ancient Greek and ...
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... kings were ordinary men chosen by their subjects, who then conferred sovereign power upon them.2 The “mirror of princes” genre of political literature, popular in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, taught as one of its principal ...
... kings were ordinary men chosen by their subjects, who then conferred sovereign power upon them.2 The “mirror of princes” genre of political literature, popular in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, taught as one of its principal ...
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... king. This left ordinary Spaniards facing an odd paradox: they were the subjects of a monarchy that in theory exalted ... king's vassals. Drama, and particularly the comedia, can function as a source that lets us look beneath the surface ...
... king. This left ordinary Spaniards facing an odd paradox: they were the subjects of a monarchy that in theory exalted ... king's vassals. Drama, and particularly the comedia, can function as a source that lets us look beneath the surface ...
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... kings and their subjects suggests that 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 ...
... kings and their subjects suggests that 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 ...
Tartalomjegyzék
The World of the Stage | |
Competing Ideals of Kingship | |
Evaluations of the Practice of Kingship | |
The Curtain Falls | |
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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 |
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