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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... interests of the king were in conflict with the goals of other characters, or the king himself was torn between his desires as a man and his responsibility to act in the best interests of his people. In either case, a stage occupied by ...
... interests of the king were in conflict with the goals of other characters, or the king himself was torn between his desires as a man and his responsibility to act in the best interests of his people. In either case, a stage occupied by ...
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... interests and concerns of their audience. 7 The comedia, according to Luis Alfonso de Carvallo, was “an imitation of life, a mirror of customs, an image of truth” (Cisne de Apolo, 1602); Micer Andrés Rey de Artieda called it “a mirror ...
... interests and concerns of their audience. 7 The comedia, according to Luis Alfonso de Carvallo, was “an imitation of life, a mirror of customs, an image of truth” (Cisne de Apolo, 1602); Micer Andrés Rey de Artieda called it “a mirror ...
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... interest of order and stability. See Julian H. Franklin, Jean Bodin and the Rise of Absolutist Theory (Cambridge, 1973), introduction and chapters 2 and 3, Guenter Lewy, Constitutionalism and Statecraft during the Golden Age of Spain ...
... interest of order and stability. See Julian H. Franklin, Jean Bodin and the Rise of Absolutist Theory (Cambridge, 1973), introduction and chapters 2 and 3, Guenter Lewy, Constitutionalism and Statecraft during the Golden Age of Spain ...
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... interests of the aristocracy, functioned with or without the support of the bourgeoisie, or was perhaps only an elaborate illusion of smoke and mirrors. 15 In any case, what is clear is that absolutism was far more complex and nuanced ...
... interests of the aristocracy, functioned with or without the support of the bourgeoisie, or was perhaps only an elaborate illusion of smoke and mirrors. 15 In any case, what is clear is that absolutism was far more complex and nuanced ...
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... interest between the “absolutist” monarchy and autonomous towns. For the relationship between the crown and local oligarchies in Madrid, see Mauro Hernández, A la sombra de la Corona: Poder local y oligarquía urbana (Madrid, 1606–1808) ...
... interest between the “absolutist” monarchy and autonomous towns. For the relationship between the crown and local oligarchies in Madrid, see Mauro Hernández, A la sombra de la Corona: Poder local y oligarquía urbana (Madrid, 1606–1808) ...
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 - 2016 |
Monarchy, Political Culture, and Drama in Seventeenth-Century Madrid ... Professor Jodi Campbell Korlátozott előnézet - 2013 |
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