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The political theater of early seventeenth-century Spain, with special reference to Juan Ruiz de Alarcón

Title: The political theater of early seventeenth-century Spain, with special reference to Juan Ruiz de Alarcón / Cynthia Leone Halpern.
Author: Halpern, Cynthia Leone.
Publication: New York : Peter Lang, ©1993.

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Description

x, 179 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

This study deals with a number of political dramas written in Spain during the reigns of Philip III (1598-1621) and Philip IV (1621-1665). Primary attention is given to the work of Juan Ruiz de Alarcón (1580/81-1639), whose theater displays an interest in statecraft and politics much more constant than that of contemporaries such as Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, and Francisco de Quevedo. He turned again and again to dramatic plots which centered on the problems of absolutist regimes. The first three chapters examine various major political treatises of the day, the characteristics, significance and role of the chief minister or privado in government, and the signs of decline in the Spanish empire to make the political theater of the early seventeenth century comprehensible to today's reader and spectator. -- Amazon.com.

Series Statement

Ibérica, 1056-5000 ; vol. 6

Uniform Title

Ibérica (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 6.

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-150) and index.

ISBN

0820419761
9780820419763

LCCN

92020890

OCLC

ocm26094704
26094704
SCSB-9151475

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library