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Overt Theatricality and the Theatrum Mundi Metaphor in Spanish and English Drama, 1570-1640
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Universitas, 1993
ISBN 10: 8370521266
ISBN 13: 9788370521264
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Seller: killarneybooks, Inagh, CLARE, Ireland
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Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Scarce paperback, 156pp + 8 pages of glossy b&w plates, NOT ex-library. Title page inscribed & signed by the Author. Interior is nice and clean with unmarked text. Noticeably shelfworn covers with rubbed upper spine. Bar-code sticker on the back. -- Contents: Introduction [General Comparative Remarks About the Theater in Spain and England 1570-1640; Definition of Overt Theatricality; Categories of Different Self-Conscious Dramatic Devices and Purposes for Which They Are Used; Choice of the Subject and the Goal of the Dissertation; Method of This Comparative Study; An Introduction to the Theatricality Outside the Theater in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Century]; 1. Social Aspects of Double Role-Playing [Brief Definition, Stressing Contexts in Which Social Aspects Are More Relevant than Psychological Ones; Plays in Which Double Role-Playing Is a Result of the Tyrannical Abuse of Power: Subjects Forced into Roles (The Maid's Tragedy, The Loyal Subject, A Wife for a Month, King Lear, En esta vida todo es verdad y todo mentira, El castigo sin venganza, La vida es sueño, El Duque de Viseo); Plays in Which Double Role-Playing is Chosen Deliberately to Gain or Regain Power (The Malcontent, Perkin Warbeck, King Henry IV Part One, Richard III, King Lear); Plays in Which Rejecting Double Role-Playing Leads to the Loss of Political Power (Believe As You List, El príncipe constante); Double Role-Playing in the Game of Love and Courtship: Social Conventions of Marriage and the Condition of Women (Don Gil de Ias calzas verdes, La dama duende, La dama boba, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, La vida es sueño); Critical View of Double Role-Playing as a Means to Social Advancement (Volpone, A Mad World My Masters, El vergonzoso en palacio, Pedro de Urdemalas, La moza de cántaro, El perro del hortelano, El rey en su imaginación); El Gran Teatro del Mundo: A Play in Line with Official Propaganda Against the 'Vain Glory' of Upward Social Mobility; Economic and Social Situation in England and Spain 1570-1640; Comparative Conclusions: Similarities and Differences in the Presentation of Social Problems in the Spanish and English Drama]; 2. Psychological Aspects of Double Role-Playing [Homo Ludens: Role-Playing for Fun, as a Game, as a Part of Creating Culture & of Human Nature and Behavior; Role vs Identity; Double Role-Playing Formed by Myth and Literary Tradition; Psychological Aspects of Double Role-Playing in the Game of Love; Theoretical Background: - 16th and 17th Century 'Psychology' - Theory of Humours & Melancholy - Contemporary Awareness of the Theatricality in Human Relations - 20th Century Perspectives on Role-Playing vs Identity; Comparative Conclusions]; 3. Philosophical Interpretations of the Theatrum Mundi Metaphor [Examples of the Play-within-the-Play Performing a Peripheral Function; Theatrum Mundi Metaphor Built Into the Central Structure of the Play: Lo fingido verdadero (Confusing Mixture of Illusion and Reality in the First Play-within-the-Play; Pagan and Christian Concepts of Social Roles Juxtaposed; Positive Aspects of Man's Creative and Mimetic Capacities: Genesius the Poet, the Dramatist, the Actor and the Saint; Moral and Religious Significance of the Metaphor: Genesius' Conversion and Martyrdom; Full Scale Dramatization of the Theatrum Mundi Metaphor Expanded by Fusion with the Theater-Dream Topos (Three Interwoven Topoi: Theater, Dream, Magic, and the Dramatization of the Theater-dream Metaphor; Theatrum Mundi Metaphor in a Sacred Drama: El Gran Teatro del Mundo); Chosen Aspects of the Theatrum Mundi Metaphor's Philosophical Background (The Ancients: Plato & Plotinus, Stoics, Petronius; Christian Interpretation: The Fathers and John of Salisbury; Renaissance Neo-Platonists: Nicolas of Cusa, Marsilio Ficino, Pico della Mirandola, Juan Luis Vives; Phenomenological Interpretation of the Theatrum Mundi Metaphor; Comparative Conclusions]; 4. Conclusions; Plays Cited; Selected Bibliography. Inscribed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 006951
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