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A Companion to Calderon de la Barca (Hardcover)
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A Companion to Calderon de la Barca (Hardcover)
Series: Tamesis Companions
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The first comprehensive study of Calderon in English Pedro Calderon
de la Barca (1600-1681) is one of the most important dramatists -
many would say the single most important dramatist - of the Spanish
Golden Age. Spain's dominant and most prestigious playwright for
much of the seventeenth century, his work is still regularly staged
and translated, influential in more recent times on writers as
diverse as Schiller, Shelley and Lorca. The author of around 120
plays (not counting his numerous Corpus Christi autos) in a variety
of styles, Calderon is most famous for his stirring dramas,
characterized by rhetorically powerful poetry, dramatic structures
carefully calibrated to produce poignant echoes, and the fizzing
intellectual energy they apply to the age's ontological,
eschatological and political preoccupations. His plays succeed in
combining these perennial concerns with compelling plots subtle
enough to defy definitive interpretation. As this volume seeks to
show, however, Calderon's comedies deserve equal recognition. Too
long stereotyped as a dour, cerebral conservative, this
playwright's comic works are as amusing as they are clever. This
Companion is the first comprehensive study of Calderon in English.
It provides a rigorous but readable introduction to the man, his
work and its legacy. Its chapters - written by leading
international comedia specialists - provide an overview of his
life, explain his intellectual, social, moral, and literary
contexts, and examine his stagecraft, his corpus, and his reception
both within and without the Hispanic world up to the twenty-first
century. Specific chapters are devoted to La vida es sueno, his
most famous work, which appears on many a university syllabus, and
to his infamous wife-murder plays.
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