Playing the King: Lope de Vega and the Limits of Conformity

With the help of insights and models provided by the speech act theory, the stratagems and techniques utilised by Lope to follow the path of prudence between the acceptable and the unacceptable in political commentary in the commercial theatre are scrutinised, illustrating how richly nuanced texts produce not an ideologically monolithic and complacent drama but one which is at once politically anxious and probing. Melveena McKendrick is Professor of Spanish Literature, Culture and Society at the University of Cambridge.

List of contents

Reconsiderations; monarchy and the theatre; historical transformations - fractured icons I; historical transformations -fractured icons II; " decir sin decir" - patterns of communications; the politics of tragedy - absolutism and reason of state; political antinomies - rebels within the system; conclusions. List of works consulted.

Product details

• Authors: Melveena McKendrick
• Publisher: Tamesis Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2000
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 242 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 534 g
• Series: Coleccion Tamesis Serie A: Mon
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies