Limits of Illusion: A Critical Study of Calderon

Klappentext This is the first thorough study of Calder n in comparison with other important dramatists of the period. Zusammenfassung This is the first thorough study of Calderón in comparison with other important dramatists of the period. Cascardi studies Calderón's paradoxical engagement with illusion in its philosophical guise as scepticism. He shows on the one hand Calderón's moral will to reject illusion and on the other his theatrical need to embrace it. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgments; Note on texts and notes; Introduction; 1. La vida es sueno: Calderón's idea of a theatre; 2. La dama duende; 3. Calderón and Tirso: El galán fantasma; 4. El secreto a voces: language and social illusion; 5. Toward tragedy; 6. El médico de su honra; 7. Herod and Hercules: theatrical space and the body; 8. El mágico prodigioso and the theatre of alchemy; 9. The illusions of history; 10. Authority and illusion: En la vida todo es verdad y too mentira; 11. The use of myth: Eco y Narciso; 12. Prometheus and the theatre of the mind; 13. Calderón's last play: the comedia as technology and romance; Notes; Index.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Anthony J. Cascardi, Cascardi Anthony J.
• Collaboration: Herbert S. Klein (Editeur)
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 17.11.2005
• EAN: 9780521022774
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02277-4
• Pages: 200
• Thèmes: Cambridge Iberian and Latin Am; Cambridge Iberian and Latin American Studies
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits); Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Linguistique et littérature anglaises; LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese, Spanish, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights