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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... Spain - History - 16th century 6. Spain - Politics and government -1621-1665 7.Spain - Politics and government - 1665-1700 I.Title 862.3'09352621 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Campbell, Jodi, 1968- Monarchy ...
... Spain such a wonderful experience: the staff at the Comisión de Intercambio Cultural, Educativo y Científico entre España y los Estados Unidos; the staff at the archives of the Biblioteca Nacional, Simancas, the Archivo Histórico ...
... Spain in the late sixteenth century. Although dramatists since the early Renaissance had been careful to follow the guidelines set by classical Greek and Latin playwrights, the writers of the Spanish comedia began to bend the rules ...
... Spain had become undisputedly the greatest power in Europe and one of the greatest empires in the world. It possessed seemingly limitless wealth from the Indies, unstoppable armies, and the leadership of Catholic Europe. In the early ...
... Spain's greatest political crises, the ways in which Spaniards experimented with fictional kingship on stage revealed their concerns and expectations about their own kings.9 How these situations were resolved reflects the way the ...
Tartalomjegyzék
31 | |
Competing Ideals of Kingship | 65 |
Evaluations of the Practice of Kingship | 101 |
The Curtain Falls | 137 |
Bibliography | 151 |
Index | 173 |
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