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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819664503321

Autore

Ter Horst Robert <1929->

Titolo

Calderón : the secular plays / / Robert Ter Horst

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©1982

ISBN

0-8131-5882-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (266 p.)

Disciplina

862/.3

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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