Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Empire and ideology : aesthetics and design in early modern theater of Spain and the new world
  • Agriculture, economics, and revolt in Lope's Fuenteovejuna
  • Falling stars : kingship and the law in Ruiz de Alarcón's El dueño de las estrellas
  • "A rose by an other name" : politics and dynastic success(ions) in Calderón's loa to La púrpura de la rosa
  • Narcissistic imperialism : religion and reconquest in Sor Juana's El divino narcisco
  • Emerging patterns : writers and the imperial state.