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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... crown and emphasize the absolute power of the king. Unfortunately for Philip, many Spanish territories resisted the process of centralization and refused to contribute additional men and taxes to the maintenance of the empire. Increased ...
... crown and local oligarchies in Madrid, see Mauro Hernandez, A la sombra de la Corona: Poder local y oligarquia urbana (Madrid, 1606-1808) (Madrid, and institutions, as well as royal councils, to limit the 1995). Plays and Politics 1.
... crown and subject. From the Madrid group, I selected the writers who were both prolific and able to sustain their popularity over a significant period of time, again in the interest of measuring broader patterns of interest on the part ...
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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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