The King Within - Reformations of Power in Shakespeare and Calderon (Paperback, New edition)

This book contrasts the portrayal of kings and kingship in the drama of William Shakespeare (1564-1616) and the Spanish playwright Pedro Calderon de la Barca (1600-81), concentrating on the ways in which both dramatists use the individual complexities of their kingly characters to address the intellectual and moral dilemmas of the ideological backgrounds that helped to create them. Against the background of seventeenth-century Europe, when religious and political reformation was leading to reconstructions of concepts of authority and personal and national identity, these two dramatists of early modern England and Spain use the increasingly theatrical facades of absolutist power to explore the internal drama of individual psychology and the kinship of flawed humanity.

General

Imprint:	Verlag Peter Lang
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	March 2010
First published:	2010
Authors:	Anita Howard
Dimensions:	220 x 150 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	199
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-911530-3
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Technical & background skills > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > Classical, early & medieval
LSN:	3-03-911530-8
Barcode:	9783039115303

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