Research Catalog

Title

Role-play and the world as stage in the comedia / Jonathan Thacker.

Author

Thacker, Jonathan.

Publication

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2002.

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Details

Description

xv, 202 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

This text investigates the frequent and varied uses made by Spanish golden-age dramatists of the notion of the play-within-a-play. It examines how and why playwrights of the period time and again created characters who dramatise themselves.

Uniform Title

University press scholarship online.

Subject

• 1500-1700
• Spanish drama > Classical period, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
• Role playing in literature
• Teatro español Siglo XVII Crítica e interpretación

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [184]-197) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Role-Theory, Metatheatre, and the Reception of Drama -- A Sense of Theatre -- Patriarchy in Action: Guillen de Castro's La fuerza de la costumbre and the Distribution of Roles -- Patriarchal Excess and the Emergence of the Desiring Self -- Role-Play and the World as Stage in the comedia -- Hiding at the Margins: Social Pressures and Escapist Role-Play -- Marta la piadosa -- Los locos de Valencia -- A Strategy for Self-Expression: The Puppet-Mistress -- La dama duende -- La discreta enamorada -- Exemplary Tragedy: The Social Riposte to Self-Expression -- El duque de Viseo and La Estrella de Sevilla.

ISBN

• 0853235481
• 0853235589 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 48884774
• SCSB-11005418

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library