Wild theater : staging the margins of Baroque ideology in the Spanish comedia / Harrison Meadows.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meadows, Harrison, 1986- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Spanish drama.

Wild men in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Other Title:

Path to Open

Place of Publication:

Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2025.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"In Wild Theater, Harrison Meadows critically examines the genealogy of one of world literature’s most well-known figures: the “Wildman.” From its earliest manifestations in works such as iThe Epic of Gilgamesh/i to more recent films like iThe Green Knight/i, the transhistorical figure of the Wildman has fascinated generations of scholars and the broader public for centuries. Despite this widespread interest, the place of the Wildman—and ideas of wildness more generally—have been underexplored in scholarship on the Spanish Baroque period. iWild Theater/i addresses this lacuna in scholarship by exploring the ideas of wildness in the Spanish comedia, a popular Spanish Golden Age theater genre that combined elements of tragedy and comedy.br /br /In five compelling chapters, Meadows argues that a major shift occurred during the Baroque period, whereby the largely positive quality of previous iterations in the genealogy of wildness take on a negative character in the cultural ethos—and that this fundamental shift was representative of the influence of Spanish colonialism on racial thinking and a larger set of changes in how early modern people viewed gender and class. In this way, the book identifies the wild figure’s dramatic roots in the carnivalesque as an indispensable point of departure to plot the trajectory of wild representation in the theater of the Hispanic Baroque. From this guiding premise, Meadows traces the carryovers, transformations, and negations of the carnivalesque into early modern dramaturgy, specifically the Spanish comedia, which are emblematic of the poetic and ideological features of the emerging commercial theater in Iberia."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Chapter 1: The battle of carnival and lent: premodern antecedents of the baroque wild figure

Chapter 2: Wildness as monstrosity in the comedias of lope de vega

Chapter 3: Wild history: fashioning national identity in the mythological past

Chapter 4: Of text and textile: gendering wildness in the spanish comedia

Chapter 5: Exceptional wildness in the skeptical theater of calderón de la barca.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed October 13, 2025)

Other Format:

Print version: Meadows, Harrison, 1986- Wild theater

ISBN:

9780826507563

0826507565

9780826507556

0826507557

OCLC:

1463560911

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license