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The Limits of Illusion: A Critical Study of Calderón
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 201

The Limits of Illusion: A Critical Study of Calderón

This is the first thorough study of Calderón in comparison with other important dramatists of the period: Lope de Vega and Tirso de Molina in Spain, Racine and Corneille in France, and Shakespeare and Marlowe in England. Cascardi studies Calderón's paradoxical engagement with illusion in its philosophical guise as scepticism. He shows on the one hand Calderón's moral will to reject illusion and on the other his theatrical need to embrace it. Cascardi discusses plays from every period to show how in Calderón's best work illusion is not rejected; instead, scepticism is absorbed. Calderón is placed in and defined against the philosophical line of Vives, Descartes, and Spinoza. Of central importance to this argument is Calderón's idea of theatre and the various transformations of that idea. This emphasis will give the book an additional interest to students, readers in philosophy and comparative literature.

Calderón
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 431

Calderón

Although Pedro Calderón de la Barca was one of the greatest and most prolific playwrights of Spain's Golden Age, most of his nonallegorical comedias—118 in all—have remained unknown. Robert ter Horst presents here the first full-length study of these works, a sustained, meditative analysis dealing with more than 80 plays, conveying a sense of the whole of Calderón's secular theater. To approach so vast a body of literature, Mr. ter Horst examines the meaning and function in Calderón of three broad subjects—myth, honor, and history—the warp threads across which the playwright weaves a subtle tapestry of contrasts, dualities, and conflicts: the private person versus the public perso...

Calderon
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 232

Calderon

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The Mind and Art of Calderón
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 434

The Mind and Art of Calderón

Professor Parker's essays provide a wide-ranging survey of the work of Calderón, the greatest exponent of Spanish Golden Age drama.

Staging Doubt
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 750

Staging Doubt

This volume considers the influential revival of ancient philosophical skepticism in the 16th and early 17th centuries and investigates, from a comparative perspective, its reception in early modern English, Spanish and French drama, dedicating detailed readings to plays by Shakespeare, Calderón, Lope de Vega, Rotrou, Desfontaines, and Cervantes. While all the plays employ similar dramatic devices for "putting skepticism on stage", the study explores how these dramas, however, give different "answers" to the challenges posed by skepticism in relation to their respective historico-cultural and "ideological" contexts.

Case Based Research in Tourism, Travel, Hospitality and Events
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 503

Case Based Research in Tourism, Travel, Hospitality and Events

This book consolidates international, contemporary and topical case study based research in tourism, travel, hospitality and events. Case studies can make learning more attractive and interesting as well as enable students to understand the theory better and develop their analytical and problem-solving skills. Using industry as an open living lab, case study based research infuses scholars into real-world industry challenges and inspires them to theorise and advance our knowledge frontiers. The book includes international case studies that can help tourism scholars build and advance (new) theories and enrich their educational practices. Case studies are accompanied with a teaching note guidi...

Three Comedies by Pedro Calderón de la Barca
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 260

Three Comedies by Pedro Calderón de la Barca

BJORNSTJERNE BJORNSONpoet dramatist novelist and politician and the most notable figure in contemporary Norwegian historywas born in December 1832 at Kvikne in the north of Norway.

Diplomatic List
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 684

Diplomatic List

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1943
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Directory of foreign diplomatic officers in Washington.

Calderón in the German Lands and the Low Countries
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 544

Calderón in the German Lands and the Low Countries

This book recounts the afterlife of the great Golden Age dramatist Pedro Calderón de la Barca in Dutch and German-speaking Europe. The high quality of the German critical and philosophical tradition has led to a far greater appreciation of Calderón outside than inside his native Spain, and it is in the German territories that the playwright's influence has been most remarkable and widespread. Professor Sullivan documents and analyses Calderón's reception and influence on the stage and on playwriting, criticism, philosophy and music in these territories. In addressing his book to students of both the German and the Spanish traditions Professor Sullivan has supplied the necessary background to both cultures and has rendered all quotations into English. The range of material will also make the book important for students of philosophy, comparative drama and German opera.