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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... Phillips. I would like to express my particular gratitude to the Fulbright Association, which provided funding for my research and a warm circle of friends and support staff in Madrid. Thanks and abrazos to all those who made my ...
... Philip IV (1621-65) attempted to strengthen its position through political centralization, seeking to govern the empire more effectively and maximize access to its resources. This was accompanied by a campaign of artistic imagery and ...
... Philip's death in 1665 of his feeble four-year-old son, 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 ...
... Philip IV's bastard son Don Juan Jose"; and William R. Blue, Spanish Comedies and Historical Contexts in the 1620s (University Park, PA, 1996). 52 See for example Stephen Greenblatt, Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare ...
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Tartalomjegyzék
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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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