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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... social groups that reflected the actual position of these groups in society, but regardless of this physical 5 A random selection from the Gazeta de Madrid reveals, for example, that in the year 1678 the celebrations of the wedding of ...
... social groups that reflected the actual position of these groups in society, but regardless of this physical 5 A random selection from the Gazeta de Madrid reveals, for example, that in the year 1678 the celebrations of the wedding of ...
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... social roles and obey the precepts of Christianity, so the theater was a testing ground for society. Questions of honor, justice, love, and loyalty could be examined and tested in the form of endlessly variable fictional situations ...
... social roles and obey the precepts of Christianity, so the theater was a testing ground for society. Questions of honor, justice, love, and loyalty could be examined and tested in the form of endlessly variable fictional situations ...
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... social, regional, and institutional centers of authority (nobles, representative assemblies, the church) strove to protect their privileges and liberties. In the case of Spain, the Habsburg monarchy faced a particular challenge in that ...
... social, regional, and institutional centers of authority (nobles, representative assemblies, the church) strove to protect their privileges and liberties. In the case of Spain, the Habsburg monarchy faced a particular challenge in that ...
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... social groups without any form of consent, but monarchs were generally wise enough not to attempt this in practice. They possessed absolute power only as long as everyone agreed that they possessed absolute power, and this agreement ...
... social groups without any form of consent, but monarchs were generally wise enough not to attempt this in practice. They possessed absolute power only as long as everyone agreed that they possessed absolute power, and this agreement ...
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... social mobility, honour, the social and professional standing of painting, the rival merits of popular and classicizing literary traditions, the legitimacy of the theatre ... to name but a handful.”24 Castilians may not have rebelled ...
... social mobility, honour, the social and professional standing of painting, the rival merits of popular and classicizing literary traditions, the legitimacy of the theatre ... to name but a handful.”24 Castilians may not have rebelled ...
Tartalomjegyzék
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2 The World of the Stage | 31 |
Competing Ideals of Kingship | 65 |
Evaluations of the Practice of Kingship | 101 |
The Curtain Falls | 137 |
Bibliography | 151 |
Index | 173 |
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 |
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