Golden Age Drama in Spain : General Consideration and Unusual Features /

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This volume contains sixteen articles that have been previously published in various journals and homage volumes but are now almost inaccessible, if not entirely forgotten. Two of these articles deal with the Golden Age drama in general, and the others concern rather unusual aspects of the theatrica...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Leavitt, Sturgis E. (Sturgis Elleno), 1888-1976 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Español
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Series:Studies in the Romance languages and literatures ; no. 121.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Spanish drama > Classical period, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The popular appeal of Golden Age drama in Spain
  • Spanish comedias as pot boilers
  • Lions in early Spanish literature and on the Spanish stage
  • Strip-tease in Golden Age drama
  • Scenes of horror in Golden Age drama
  • Some aspects of the grotesque in the drama of the Siglo de Oro
  • Notes on the gracioso as a dramatic critic
  • The gracioso takes the audience into his confidence
  • Lope de Vega and the New World
  • A maligned character in Lope de Vega's El mejor alcalde el rey
  • Divine justice in the Hazañas del Cid
  • A note on the Burlador de Sevilla
  • Did Calderón have a sense of humor?
  • Humor in the autos of Calderón
  • Pedro Crespo and the Captain in El alcalde de Zalamea
  • Cracks in the structure of Calderń's El alcalde de Zalamea
  • Some fields for further research in Golden Age drama.

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