Calderón : the secular plays / Robert Ter Horst.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ter Horst, Robert, 1929- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681--Criticism and interpretation.

Calderón de la Barca, Pedro.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1982.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Although Pedro Calderón de la Barca was one of the greatest and most prolific playwrights of Spain's Golden Age, most of his nonallegorical comedias -- 118 in all -- have remained unknown. Robert ter Horst presents here the first full-length study of these works, a sustained, meditative analysis dealing with more than 80 plays, conveying a sense of the whole of Calderón's secular theater.To approach so vast a body of literature, Mr. ter Horst examines the meaning and function in Calderón of three broad subjects -- myth, honor, and history -- the warp threads across which the playwright weaves

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; I. ""AMORESGUERRA"": La estatua de Prometeo as the Model of Calderonian Dramaturgy; II. THE IDIOMS OF SILENCECE: Cervantes, Honor, and No hay cosa como collar; III. POETIC PRINCIPALITIES: The Private and the Public Person in Calderón; NOTES; INDEX

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813158822

0813158826

OCLC:

557509680