It is no accident that some variation of the question 'What should
I do?' appears in over three-quarters of the comedic plays of the
Spanish Golden Age. Casuistical dialogue was a concern, even an
obsession, of Spanish playwrights during the seventeenth century,
many of whom were educated by Jesuit casuists. Conscience on Stage
is a study of casuistry or case morality as the foundation for a
poetics of seventeenth-century Spanish >em>comedias.
Hilaire Kallendorf examines the Jesuit upbringing and
casuistical education of major playwrights of the Spanish Golden
Age, many of whom were also priests, and introduces the vocabulary
of casuistry, as expressed in both confessors' manuals and in stage
plays. Engaging issues of class, gender, and age to explore scenes
of advice-giving and receiving, she demonstrates how the
culture-specific construct of 'conscience' in early modern Spain
can be recovered by means of a Foucauldian genealogy, which enlists
the skills of philology at the service of a larger vision of the
history of ideas. This study outlines and reiterates the
relationship of theatre to casuistry, the Jesuit contributions to
Spanish literary theory and practice, and the importance of
casuistry for the study of early modern subjectivity.
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