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  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Rise of Casuistry in Spain, the Flowering of Jesuit School Drama, and the Jesuit Education of Spanish Playwrights
  • Renaissance European Casuistry and Its Manifestations in Spain
  • Jesuit School Drama
  • Mainstream Dramatists Educated by Jesuits
  • Casuistry in Action on the Jesuit School Stage
  • 1 The Vocabulary of Casuistry
  • Casos and Case Morality
  • Hypothetical Scenarios
  • 'To Flee the Occasion of Sin'
  • Competing Obligations
  • 2 '¿Qué he de hacer?' / 'What should I do?'
  • Questions of Strategy
  • Moral Dilemmas and Conflicting Duties
  • Hierarchies of Virtue and Vice
  • Comedias and Confessional Manuals
  • The Double Bind
  • The Casuistical Dramatic Monologue and Tragedy
  • 3 Asking for Advice: Class, Gender, and the Supernatural
  • Rulers and Subjects, Masters and Servants
  • Wave Imagery, Blindness, and Labyrinths
  • Soliloquies and Supernatural Entities
  • The Gendering of Casuistry
  • Are Men or Women More Casuistical?
  • 4 Constructions of Conscience
  • The Conscience, in Action and Acted Upon
  • Descriptions of Clear and Troubled Consciences
  • Conscience's Auxiliaries
  • Synonyms and Antonyms for Conscience
  • 'Symptoms' or Physical Manifestations of Conscience
  • 5 Casuistry and Theory
  • Genealogies of Conscience
  • The Relationship of Theatre to Casuistry
  • The Jesuit Contribution to Spanish Literary Theory and Practice
  • Poetics of the Comedia in Early Modern Spain
  • Comedia or Quaestio?
  • Dilatio, Deferral, and Différance
  • 'The Soul of Spain'
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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