Monarchy, Political Culture, and Drama in Seventeenth-Century Madrid: Theater of NegotiationAshgate Publishing, Ltd., 2013. máj. 28. - 182 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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... Charles I (who believed in divine right) was deposed and executed by his subjects (who did not). When these issues appeared in the Spanish comedia, and they frequently did, it was often the overlapping presence of the king and his ...
... Charles II. Although Charles reigned for 35 years, he suffered from physical and mental debilities and was never able to provide strong leadership. His reign was characterized by factionalism in which various figures in the court ...
... Charles V(New York, 2002), p. 32. A good survey of this aspect of early modern government is J.H. Elliott, "A Europe of Composite Monarchies," Past & Present, 137 (November 1992): pp. 48-71. See The general outlines of absolutism are ...
... Charles Jago, Jose' Manuel de Bernardo Ares, Pablo Fernandez Albaladejo, and Bartolome Clavero. Luis Corteguera, For the Common Good: Popular Politics in Barcelona, 1580- 1640 (Ithaca, 2002). Wayne te Brake's Shaping History: Ordinary ...
... Charles Aubrun's classic study of seventeenth- century drama is representative of both; he called theater of that period "a solid whole, consistent and without fissures"26 and limited his analysis to the most "accessible" plays of Lope ...
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Competing Ideals of Kingship | 65 |
Evaluations of the Practice of Kingship | 101 |
The Curtain Falls | 137 |
Bibliography | 151 |
Index | 173 |
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