A Companion to Early Modern Hispanic Theater.

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Author / Creator:Kallendorf, Hilaire.
Imprint:Leiden : BRILL, 2014.
Description:1 online resource (404 pages)
Language:English
Series:Renaissance Society of America
Renaissance Society of America.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11223964
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ISBN:9789004263017
9004263012
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9781306493499
900423456X
9789004234567
9789004234567
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
English.
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Summary:A panoramic, state-of-the-art handbook in English destined to chart a course for future work in the field of early modern Hispanic theater studies. Contains 18 crucial essays distributed among 4 wide-ranging sections on Origins, Themes, Places, and Intersections.
Other form:Print version: Kallendorf, Hilaire. A Companion to Early Modern Hispanic Theater. Leiden : BRILL, ©2014 9789004234567
Standard no.:10.1163/9789004263017.
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The drama produced during Spain's early modern period, its so-called golden age, has long been a fertile field for research. The 18 well-documented essays Kallendorf (Texas A&M) has gathered represent some of the best new critical writing on this subject. These wide-ranging selections are the work of a cadre of well-established scholars, several of whom are among the leading comedia experts. Some of the contributors employ a particular theoretical perspective, such as psychoanalysis or chaos theory, and others take a more traditional approach, focusing on a single play or tracing a theme through several works. The essays examine canonical and less-known comedias, along with comic interludes and sacramental plays; they treat a variety of topics, including classical motifs, courtly love, honor, emblems, and picaresque elements. The individual essays cover some of the same ground Jonathan Thacker does in his excellent single-author work on the period, A Companion to Golden Age Theatre (CH, Nov'07, 45-1362), but whereas Thacker's volume functions more as a student-oriented manual, Kallendorf's collection is directed primarily toward specialists. It serves as a valuable guide to the present state of scholarship in the field and as an indispensable reference tool for future research. --Melvin S. Arrington, University of Mississippi

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