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The plays of Juan Ruiz de Alarcón / Jules Whicker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whicker, Jules, 1966- author.
- Series:
- ColeccioÌn TaÌmesis. MonografiÌas ; Serie A, 200.
- ColeccioÌn TaÌmesis. Serie A: MonografiÌas ; 200
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ruiz de Alarcón, Juan, 1580?-1639--Criticism and interpretation.
- Ruiz de Alarcón, Juan.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (212 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K. ; Rochester, N.Y. : Tamesis, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- AlarcoÌn defends the comedia against criticsm through his definition of illusion as a moral art - a stance evident in his plays. The plays of Ruiz de AlarcoÌn, a significant dramatist in the Spanish Golden Age, show in many of their plots a preoccupation with deception, which Whicker believes reflects AlarcoÌn's fundamental concern about truth-telling in literature. His study of AlarcoÌn's comedias stresses the seriousness and moral orthodoxy of the playwright and his concern with how simulation and dissimulation can be viewed both positively and negatively in theatre as well asin life. In support of his argument for the seriousness of AlarcoÌn's theatre - his challenge to his audience to think hard and clear about his play, particularly over the issue of illusion, deception and dissimulation - Whicker focuses on the moral arguments perceived in AlarcoÌn's theatre, and their reference to serious literary-moral issues current in the Golden Age; he tests the relevance of his argument against contemporary circumstances, the ethics ofprivanza in particular. JULES WHICKER lectures in the department of Hispanic studies, University of Birmingham.
- Contents:
- Fiction, theatre and morality
- Lies and dissimulation : La verdad sospechosa
- Alarcón's criticism of satire in Las paredes oyen
- Illusion in magic and drama : La cueva de Salamanca, Quien mal anda en mal acaba, and La prueba de las promesas
- Prudent dissimulation and military virtue in La manganilla de Melilla
- Deceit in politics and Alarcón's privado plays : La amistad castigada and Ganar amigos.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 16 Feb 2023).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-208) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-94987-6
- 9786611949877
- 1-84615-362-X
- OCLC:
- 818846456
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