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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... kings as principal characters. Some of these plays featured well-known stories about historical figures, such as ... king down from his Greek association with divinity and heroism, set above other men, to the position of an ordinary ...
... king were in conflict with the goals of other characters, or the king himself was torn between his desires as a man and his responsibility to act in the best interests of his people. In either case, a stage occupied by both king and ...
... king. This left ordinary Spaniards facing an odd paradox: they were the subjects of a monarchy that in theory exalted the power of the king and his divinely given authority, and that had only recently been superior among the powers of ...
... king and his subjects, the solutions they offered can reveal a great deal about the political awareness and expectations of the audience. This audience, in turn, was significant because it was far broader than that reached by any other ...
... king and commoner alike.8 This was also a time when Spanish philosophy and theology favored the metaphor of the world as a stage, and life as a dream. As life was a kind of testing ground for people, to see how well they could play ...
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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