In sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain, debating the
acceptability of games and recreation was serious business. With
Lector Ludens, Michael Scham uses Cervantes's Don Quijote and
Novelas ejemplares as the basis for a wide-ranging exploration of
early modern Spanish views on recreations ranging from cards and
dice to hunting, attending the theater, and reading fiction.
Shifting fluidly between modern theories of play, little-known
Spanish treatises on leisure and games, and the evidence in
Cervantes's own works, Scham illuminates Cervantes's intense
fascination with games, play, and leisure, as well as the tensions
in early modern Spain between the stern moralizing of the
Counter-Reformation and the playfulness of Renaissance
humanism.
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