A Companion to the Spanish Renaissance
A Companion to the Spanish Renaissance

Author: Hilaire Kallendorf

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789004330931

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A Companion to the Spanish Renaissance makes a renewed case for the inclusion of Spain within broader European Renaissance movements. This interdisciplinary volume offers a snapshot of the best new work being done in this area

Memoirs
Memoirs

Author: Marie Mancini

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2009-05-15

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 0226502805

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The memoirs of Hortense (1646–1699) and of Marie (1639–1715) Mancini, nieces of the powerful Cardinal Mazarin and members of the court of Louis XIV, represent the earliest examples in France of memoirs published by women under their own names during their lifetimes. Both unhappily married—Marie had also fled the aftermath of her failed affair with the king—the sisters chose to leave their husbands for life on the road, a life quite rare for women of their day. Through their writings, the Mancinis sought to rehabilitate their reputations and reclaim the right to define their public images themselves, rather than leave the stories of their lives to the intrigues of the court—and to their disgruntled ex-husbands. First translated in 1676 and 1678 and credited largely to male redactors, the two memoirs reemerge here in an accessible English translation that chronicles the beginnings of women’s rights to personal independence within the confines of an otherwise circumscribed early modern aristocratic society.

Divination on stage
Divination on stage

Author: Folke Gernert

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2021-02-08

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 3110695758

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Magicians, necromancers and astrologers are assiduous characters in the European golden age theatre. This book deals with dramatic characters who act as physiognomists or palm readers in the fictional world and analyses the fictionalisation of physiognomic lore as a practice of divination in early modern Romance theatre from Pietro Aretino and Giordano Bruno to Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca and Thomas Corneille.

Role-play and the World as Stage in the Comedia
Role-play and the World as Stage in the Comedia

Author: Jonathan Thacker

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 9780853235484

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The theatrum mundi metaphor was well-known in the Golden Age, and was often employed, notably by Calderón in his religious theatre. However, little account has been given of the everyday exploitation of the idea of the world as stage in the mainstream drama of the Golden Age. This study examines how and why playwrights of the period time and again created characters who dramatize themselves, who re-invent themselves by performing new roles and inventing new plots within the larger frame of the play. The prevalence of metatheatrical techniques among Golden Age dramatists, including Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, Calderón de la Barca and Guillén de Castro, reveals a fascination with role-playing and its implications. Thacker argues that in comedy, these playwrights saw role-playing as a means by which they could comment on and criticize the society in which they lived, and he reveals a drama far less supportive of the social status quo in Golden Age Spain than has been traditionally thought to be the case.

Fiske and Fisk family
Fiske and Fisk family

Author: Frederick Clifton Pierce

Publisher: Dalcassian Publishing Company

Published: 1896-01-01

Total Pages: 665

ISBN-13:

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Being the record of the descendants of Symond Fiske, lord of the manor of Stadhaugh, Suffolk County, England, from the time of Henry IV to date, including all the American members of the family