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Playing the King: Lope de Vega and the Limits of Conformity (Hardcover)
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Playing the King: Lope de Vega and the Limits of Conformity (Hardcover)
Series: Monografias A
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A reappraisal of Lope's literary career, bringing out the
complexities of his dramatic texts. This book offers a radical
re-evaluation of Lope's theatre, which will affect the way in which
the comedia in general is read. It spans Lope's literary career,
discussing (pseudo-)historical, tragic and peasant plays in order
to show Lope's texts as complex negotiations between author and
public, between conservatism and subversion, between
representations of the ideal of kingship and its political reality,
in a period of social and political change. Drawing on contemporary
Spanish political philosophy, McKendrick shows that far from
glorifying monarchy and advocating absolutism (the orthodox view in
the Hispanic world), Lope's political plays constitute an informed
critiqueof kingship; she also challenges the received wisdom that
the comedia was an instrument of stage and that its playwrights
were the conscious propagandists of an aristocratic elite. With the
help of insights and models provided by the speech act theory, the
stratagems and techniques utilised by Lope to follow the path of
prudence between the acceptable and the unacceptable in political
commentary in the commercial theatre are scrutinised, illustrating
how richly nuanced texts produce not an ideologically monolithic
and complacent drama but one which is at once politically anxious
and probing. MELVEENA MCKENDRICK is Professor of Spanish
Literature, Culture and Societyat the University of Cambridge.
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