Critical Essays on the Life and Work of Juan Ruiz de Alarcon
Author: James A. Parr
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Published: 1972
Total Pages: 332
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Author: James A. Parr
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Published: 1972
Total Pages: 332
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mary Parker
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 1998-09-17
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 0313370516
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Golden Age of Spanish drama extends from the close of the 15th century to the death of Calderón in 1681. During that time, the humanists, as dramatists, followed Italy's artistic awakening direction, and imitated Classical drama. With originality and dreams of greatness, they subverted the nature of tragedy; modified the approach of Comedy and invented the New Play, the Comedia Nueva. In it the poet-dramatists introduced important modificaitons of realism, included imagined reality, Christian symbolism and theatricality, as artistic truth. They elaborate all kinds of syntheses. For this reason, the Spanish Golden Age theater can be viewed as part of a tradition that includes the Greco-Roman comedy and tragedy, Christian tragedy, and the authentic national literary and dramatic tendencies. The entries in this reference book explore the fascinating history of the Golden Age of Spanish drama. The volume begins with an introductory overview of the literary, cultural, and historical contexts that shaped dramatic writing of the period. The book then presents alphabetically arranged essays for nineteen significant Spanish dramatists of the Golden Age. Each essay is written by an expert contributor and includes biographical information, an analysis and evaluation of major works, a discussion of critical response to the plays, and an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources. The volume closes with a selected general bibliography of central critical studies of Golden Age Spanish drama.
Author: Catherine Larson
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780838751800
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study illustrates how a focus on language, which is manifest in so much of contemporary literary theory, can help to open some of the canonical texts of Spanish Golden Age theater to new readings.
Author: Jules Whicker
Publisher: Tamesis Books
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781855660939
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArising from neo-stoic interpretations of prudence, Alarcon's identification of the successful manipulation of illusion as a moral art serves as a defence of the comedia and offers an alternative to the supposed moral irresponsibility of Lope de Vega."--Jacket.
Author: Henry K. Ziomek
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2021-05-11
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 0813183561
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpain's Golden Age, the seventeenth century, left the world one great legacy, the flower of its dramatic genius—the comedia. The work of the Golden Age playwrights represents the largest combined body of dramatic literature from a single historical period, comparable in magnitude to classical tragedy and comedy, to Elizabethan drama, and to French neoclassical theater. A History of Spanish Golden Age Drama is the first up-to-date survey of the history of the comedia, with special emphasis on critical approaches developed during the past ten years. A history of the comedia necessarily focuses on the work of Lope de Vega and Calderon de la Barca, but Ziomek also gives full credit to the host of lesser dramatists who followed in the paths blazed by Lope and Calderon, and whose individual contributions to particular genres added to the richness of Spanish theater. He also examines the profound influence of the comedia on the literature of other cultures.
Author: Frank Northen Magill
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 440
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCritical essays examine representative plays and identify themes and characteristics employed by more than 170 dramatists ranging from Aeschylus in 400 B.C. to the contemporary Austrian Peter Handke.
Author: James A. Parr
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 188
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Carl Edmund Rollyson
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 586
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCombines, updates, and expands two earlier Salem Press reference sets: Critical survey of drama, Rev. ed., English language series, published in 1994, and Critical survey of drama, Foreign language series, published in 1986. This new 8 vol. set contains 602 essays, of which 538 discuss individual dramatists and 64 cover broad overview topics. The dramatist profiles contain more than 310 photographs and drawings.
Author: Francis S. Heck
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 162
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: University of Alabama. Dept. of Romance Languages
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 164
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