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Golden Age Drama in Spain General Consideration and Unusual Features

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This volume contains sixteen articles that have been previously published in various journals and homage volumes but are now almost inaccessible, if not entirely forgotten. Two of these articles deal with the Golden Age drama in general, and the others concern rather unusual aspects of the theatrical production of the period.

Title Golden Age Drama in Spain General Consideration and Unusual Features / by Sturgis E. Leavitt.
Publisher Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse
Manufacture Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE
Creation Date 2019
Notes Includes bibliographical references.
Content The popular appeal of Golden Age drama in Spain -- Spanish comedias as pot boilers -- Lions in early Spanish literature and on the Spanish stage -- Strip-tease in Golden Age drama -- Scenes of horror in Golden Age drama -- Some aspects of the grotesque in the drama of the Siglo de Oro -- Notes on the gracioso as a dramatic critic -- The gracioso takes the audience into his confidence -- Lope de Vega and the New World -- A maligned character in Lope de Vega's El mejor alcalde el rey -- Divine justice in the Hazañas del Cid -- A note on the Burlador de Sevilla -- Did Calderón have a sense of humor? -- Humor in the autos of Calderón -- Pedro Crespo and the Captain in El alcalde de Zalamea -- Cracks in the structure of Calderń's El alcalde de Zalamea -- Some fields for further research in Golden Age drama.
Series University of North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures
number 121
Extent 1 online resource (128 pages).
Language English
Spanish
Copyright Date ©2019
National Library system number 997010705369805171
MARC RECORDS

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