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The first comprehensive study of Calderon in English Pedro Calderon de la Barca (1600-1681) is one of the most important dramatists - many would say the single most important dramatist - of the Spanish Golden Age. Spain's dominant and most prestigious playwright for much of the seventeenth century, his work is still regularly staged and translated, influential in more recent times on writers as diverse as Schiller, Shelley and Lorca. The author of around 120 plays (not counting his numerous Corpus Christi autos) in a variety of styles, Calderon is most famous for his stirring dramas, characterized by rhetorically powerful poetry, dramatic structures carefully calibrated to produce poignant echoes, and the fizzing intellectual energy they apply to the age's ontological, eschatological and political preoccupations. His plays succeed in combining these perennial concerns with compelling plots subtle enough to defy definitive interpretation. As this volume seeks to show, however, Calderon's comedies deserve equal recognition. Too long stereotyped as a dour, cerebral conservative, this playwright's comic works are as amusing as they are clever. This Companion is the first comprehensive study of Calderon in English. It provides a rigorous but readable introduction to the man, his work and its legacy. Its chapters - written by leading international comedia specialists - provide an overview of his life, explain his intellectual, social, moral, and literary contexts, and examine his stagecraft, his corpus, and his reception both within and without the Hispanic world up to the twenty-first century. Specific chapters are devoted to La vida es sueno, his most famous work, which appears on many a university syllabus, and to his infamous wife-murder plays.
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Author: Roy Norton (Senior Research Fellow in Spanish, Pembroke College) , Jonathan W Thacker (King Alfonso XIII Professor of Spanish Studies) , Professor D W Cruickshank , Jeremy Robbins
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint: Tamesis Books
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.742kg
ISBN: 9781855663152
ISBN 10: 1855663155
Pages: 414
Publication Date: 19 November 2021
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Language: English
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations List of Contributors Foreword / Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction, Roy Norton and Jonathan Thacker 1 Biography and Context, Don Cruickshank 2 The Calderonian World, Jeremy Robbins 3 The Playwright's Craft: Calderón and the Great Theatrical World of Early-Modern Spain, Alejandro García-Reidy 4 La vida es sueño, Jeremy Lawrance 5 The Honour Plays of Calderón, Colin Thompson 6 Calderón, the Comedian, Jonathan Thacker 7 Mythological Court Spectacle Plays, Margaret R. Greer 8 Religious comedias, Isabel Hernando Morata 9 Calderón's 'Sacramental, Allegorical and Historical' autos, Ignacio Arellano 10 Calderón's graciosos, Roy Norton 11 Calderón and Visual Art, Oliver Noble Wood 12 The Staging of Calderón's Theatre, Santiago Fernández Mosquera 13 Calderón's European Reception from Romanticism to the Twentieth Century, Ritchie Robertson 14 The Reception of Calderón in the Hispanic World, Duncan Wheeler Appendices I. Key Digital and Print Sources and Works by Calderón Mentioned II. Versification in Calderón Consolidated Bibliography Index
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"Companion to Calderón de la Barca is the first ""general guide to the interested reader"" [...] not only students and scholars of early modern Spanish literature and early modernists in other fields but also comparatists and people interested in theory history and theatre more broadly. Companion to Calderón de la Barca is a splendid contribution not just to one but to several fields, one that sets high academic standards for future handbooks, and one that will undoubtedly serve as a vade mecum for the next generation of Calderonistas. -- Sofie Kluge * Bulletin of the Comediantes * The unique selling point of this collection is that it offers the first comprehensive overview of Calderón de la Barca in English. It is designed for the general reader, and explores the dramatist from multiple perspectives. * MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW *"
"Companion to Calderón de la Barca is the first ""general guide to the interested reader"" [...] not only students and scholars of early modern Spanish literature and early modernists in other fields but also comparatists and people interested in theory history and theatre more broadly. Companion to Calderón de la Barca is a splendid contribution not just to one but to several fields, one that sets high academic standards for future handbooks, and one that will undoubtedly serve as a vade mecum for the next generation of Calderonistas. -- Sofie Kluge * Bulletin of the Comediantes *"
Author Information
ROY NORTON is Senior Research Fellow in Spanish at Pembroke College, Oxford, and Lecturer in Spanish at Christ Church, New College, and St Hilda's College. JONATHAN THACKER is King Alfonso XIII Professor of Spanish Studies at the University of Oxford and Professorial Fellow at Exeter College, Oxford. MARGARET R. GREER is Emeritus Professor of Romance Studies at Duke University.
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