Conscience on Stage : The Comedia as Casuistry in Early Modern Spain /
It is no accident that some variation of the question 'What should I do?' appears in over three-quarters of the comedic plays of the Spanish Golden Age. Casuistical dialogue was a concern, even an obsession, of Spanish playwrights during the seventeenth century, many of whom were educated...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés Español |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
2007.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the rise of casuistry in Spain, the flowering of Jesuit school drama, and the Jesuit education of Spanish playwrights
- The vocabulary of casuistry
- 'Que he de hacer?' / 'What should I do?'
- Asking for advice : class, gender, and the supernatural
- Constructions of conscience
- Casuistry and theory.


