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Space, Drama, and Empire examines the role that space played as a vehicle to imperialize Spain’s history in Lope de Vega’s theater. Lope’s national history plays, this book argues, used the landscapes and settings of the past to foretell and legitimize Spain’s imperial present and to “map” or plot its expansionist trajectory throughout the centuries.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Illustrations
A Note on Translations
Introduction
- Space and the Imperial Appropriation of the Past in the Lopian comedia
- "Que los reyes nunca están lejos": Empire and Metatheatricality in El mejor alcalde, el rey
- Born to Expand: Space, Figura, and Empire in Las famosas asturianas
- Endangered from Within: Space and Difference in Las paces de los reyesy judía de Toledo
- Atlantic Conquests, Transatlantic Echoes: Space, Gender, and Dietetics in Los guanches de Tenerife y conquista de Canaria
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index
Über den Autor / die Autorin
JAVIER LORENZO is an associate professor of Hispanic studies at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. He is the author of Nuevos casos, nuevas artes: Intertextualidad, autorrepresentación e ideología en la obra de Juan Boscán.
Zusammenfassung
Spanish poet, playwright, and novelist Felix Lope de Vega (1562-1635) was a key figure of Golden Age Spanish literature. In this rich and informative study, Javier Lorenzo investigates the symbolic use of space in Lope’s drama, and its function as an ideological tool to promote an imagined Spanish national past.
