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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... presented stock characters representing types of people more than individuals, and these in his view emphasized the inherent honor and dignity of each rank, encouraging subjects to take pride in their place, and consequently to not ...
... presented in the comedia. If theater served as a means of promoting the status quo and maintaining the social hierarchy, it stands to reason that it would present a consistently positive picture of kings and their power. Comedia ...
... presenting bad kings as a source of moral and social disorder. Castro used his comedias to present the argument that reason, morality, and the common good were more important than blind submission to a capricious king.38 Similar ...
... presented the clearest expression of this argument, demonstrating that Lope de Vega used the tools of drama (irony, dialectic, and multiple perspectives) to "support and subvert simultaneously" — to comment on contemporary politics ...
... presented, and how these were received by its audience. Other models from cultural history and anthropology may be fruitfully applied to the Spanish case, such as Roger Chartier's work on representation and the production of meaning, in ...
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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