Lope de Vega's `Comedias de tema religioso': Re-creations and Re-presentations (Hardcover)

Lope de Vega's religious plays are a distinctive part of his output, but little scholarly work is available on them. This study focuses on five plays, La hermosa Ester, the Isidro plays, Lo fingido verdadero and La buena guarda. Within the context of the seventeenth-century stage, Canning examines Lope's manipulation of religious material, and his treatment of socio-literary themes - love, the role of women - and the way in which they are employed to generate audience reception. She considers the relationship between religious drama and metatheatre, focusing on Lope's techniques for highlighting the illusory nature of life and the relationship between lo verdadero and lo divino, concepts which lie at the heart of the theocentric world view of seventeenth-century Spain. The conflicting imperatives of human and divine love and the issue of identity are features of all of the plays. And she shows that the interplay between illusion and reality and the relationship between playwright and audience are crucial to Lope's dramatic output.Las comedias religiosas de Lope de Vega constituyen una parte fundamental de su producciA3n dramAtica. Sin embargo, no han recibido el reconocimiento que merecen. Este libro ofrece un anAlisis de cinco obras: La hermosa Ester, La niAez y La juventud de San Isidro, Lo fingido verdadero y La buena guarda. Canning examina las distintas formas de recepciA3n por parte del pAblico teniendo en cuenta la manipulaciA3n de las fuentes hagiogrAficas y bA-blicas y el tratamiento que Lope da a temas socioliterarios tales como el amor y el papel de la mujer. AdemAs, analiza la metateatralidad de la comedia religiosa y los recursos autorreferenciales empleados por Lope paraponer de relieve la relaciA3n entre la vida y la ilusiA3n, entre lo verdadero y lo divino, conceptos que formaron una parte intrA-nseca de la cosmovisiA3n teocA(c)ntrica de la EspaAa del siglo XVII. Los imperativos contradictorios del amor humano y el amor divino y la complejidad de la identidad son temas que se presentan en todas las obras. Canning demuestra que la conexiA3n entre la ilusiA3n y la realidad y la relaciA3n entre el dramaturgo y el pAblico son cruciales para la producciA3n dramAtica de Lope. ELAINE CANNING is Lecturer in Spanish, University of Wales, Bangor.

General

Imprint:	Tamesis Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Monografias A
Release date:	June 2004
First published:	2004
Authors:	Elaine Canning
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	162
ISBN-13:	978-1-85566-030-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > General
LSN:	1-85566-030-X
Barcode:	9781855660304

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