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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780675503321

Autore

Kallendorf Hilaire <1974->

Titolo

Conscience on stage : the Comedia as casuistry in early modern Spain / / Hilaire Kallendorf

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2007

©2007

ISBN

1-4426-8421-6

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (310 p.)

Collana

University of Toronto Romance Series

Disciplina

862/.05230903

Soggetti

Spanish drama (Comedy) - History and criticism

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

Christianity in literature

Casuistry in literature

Casuistry

Conscience in literature

Confession in literature

Confession (Liturgy) - Catholic Church - History - 17th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : the rise of casuistry in Spain, the flowering of Jesuit school drama, and the Jesuit education of Spanish playwrights -- The vocabulary of casuistry -- 'Que he de hacer?' / 'What should I do?' -- Asking for advice : class, gender, and the supernatural -- Constructions of conscience -- Casuistry and theory.

Sommario/riassunto

It is no accident that some variation of the question 'What should I do?' appears in over three-quarters of the comedic plays of the Spanish Golden Age. Casuistical dialogue was a concern, even an obsession, of Spanish playwrights during the seventeenth century, many of whom were educated by Jesuit casuists. Conscience on Stage is a study of casuistry or case morality as the foundation for a poetics of seventeenth-century Spanish comedias.Hilaire Kallendorf examines the Jesuit upbringing and casuistical education of major playwrights of the Spanish Golden Age, many of whom were also priests, and introduces



the vocabulary of casuistry, as expressed in both confessors' manuals and in stage plays. Engaging issues of class, gender, and age to explore scenes of advice-giving and receiving, she demonstrates how the culture-specific construct of 'conscience' in early modern Spain can be recovered by means of a Foucauldian genealogy, which enlists the skills of philology at the service of a larger vision of the history of ideas. This study outlines and reiterates the relationship of theatre to casuistry, the Jesuit contributions to Spanish literary theory and practice, and the importance of casuistry for the study of early modern subjectivity.