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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... 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. According to ...
... sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, taught as one of its principal lessons that kings needed to dominate their personal weaknesses as men in order to fulfill well their duties as monarchs. The progression of these ideas of the monarch ...
... sixteenth century who were willing to surrender some of their rights to a powerful central authority in the interest of order and stability. See Julian H. Franklin, Jean Bodin and the Rise of Absolutist Theory (Cambridge, 1973) ...
... sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were also a period of great uncertainty: the Reformation and subsequent religious wars, the shifting notions of power that accompanied the growth of absolutism, new intellectual views of the world ...
... sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, but these scholars have not always perceived it as an expression of this process of negotiation. The earliest and most thorough studies of Spanish drama in the twentieth century considered Golden Age ...
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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