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Ter Horst Robert <1929-> |
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Calderón : the secular plays / / Robert Ter Horst |
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Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1982 |
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©1982 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (266 p.) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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 |
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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 |
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