Role-play and the world as stage in the comedia / Jonathan Thacker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thacker, Jonathan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish drama--Classical period, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

Spanish drama.

Role playing in literature.

Physical Description:

xv, 202 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2002.

Contents:

Introduction: Role-Theory, Metatheatre, and the Reception of Drama 1

1 A Sense of Theatre 19

1 Patriarchy in Action: Guillen de Castro's La fuerza de la costumbre and the Distribution of Roles 19

2 Patriarchal Excess and the Emergence of the Desiring Self 34

3 Role-Play and the World as Stage in the comedia 48

2 Hiding at the Margins: Social Pressures and Escapist Role-Play 66

1 Marta la piadosa 68

2 Los locos de Valencia 90

3 A Strategy for Self-Expression: The Puppet-Mistress 107

1 La dama duende 109

2 La discreta enamorada 132

4 Exemplary Tragedy: The Social Riposte to Self-Expression 145

El duque de Viseo and La Estrella de Sevilla 159.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [184]-197) and index.

ISBN:

0853235481

0853235589

OCLC:

48884774