Calderón : the secular plays / / Robert Ter Horst
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| Autore: |
Ter Horst Robert <1929->
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| Titolo: |
Calderón : the secular plays / / Robert Ter Horst
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| Pubblicazione: | Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1982 |
| ©1982 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (266 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 862/.3 |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Calderón |
| ISBN: | 0-8131-5882-6 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910819664503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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