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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... 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. According to classical dramatic precepts, which ...
... dramatists — and their public — found these stories appealing and understood them to be lessons about how to resolve or avoid these conflicts. The format of the comedia allowed it to tell a brief but complete story with its conflict and ...
... dramatists dealt with the question of kingly authority as much as political writers did, although their experiments took a different form: they could portray trustworthy kings and tyrannical kings, ideal situations and insoluble ...
... dramatists, considering them only less-talented imitators of the few who formed the Golden Age canon. Now, though, they faced the question of whether these lesser-known dramatists were fundamentally different from the most famous ...
... dramatists, who were recognized in their own time but largely ignored by See for example Margaret Rich Greer, The Play of Power: Mythological Court Dramas of Calderon de la Barca (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991), in which ...
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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