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The Mind and Art of Calderon Alexander Augustine Parker

The Mind and Art of Calderon By Alexander Augustine Parker

The Mind and Art of Calderon by Alexander Augustine Parker


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Professor Parker's essays provide a wide-ranging survey of Calderon's secular, three-act plays (comedias) through detailed analyses of individual works. The themes found in the plays are studied in relation to the background of ideas in seventeenth-century Spain and to the development of Calderon's own view of the intellectual life and the social, ethical and moral problems of this age.

The Mind and Art of Calderon Summary

The Mind and Art of Calderon: Essays on the Comedias by Alexander Augustine Parker

Don Pedro Calderon de la Barca (1600-81) was, with Lope de Vega, the greatest exponent of Spanish Golden Age drama. Professor Parker's essays are the fruits of a highly distinguished career spanning forty-five years. They provide a wide-ranging survey of Calderon's secular, three-act plays (comedias) through detailed analyses of individual works. The themes found in the plays are studied in relation to the background of ideas in seventeenth-century Spain and to the development of Calderon's own view of the intellectual life and the social, ethical and moral problems of this age. From the tensions of Calderon's early family life and his intellectual struggle with the associated problems, the book passes to the wider tensions in the social and political life of his time, and concludes with a demonstration of how Calderon raises all these human problems onto a wide 'philosophical' level through his use of myths and symbols.

Table of Contents

Author's preface; Editor's preface; Introduction; 1. Stylistic and dramatic craftsmanship; 2. From experience to myth; 3. The tensions of social life; 4. The tensions of public life; 5. From symbol to myth; Epilogue; Notes; Index.

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NLS9780521121170
9780521121170
0521121175
The Mind and Art of Calderon: Essays on the Comedias by Alexander Augustine Parker
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2009-10-15
432
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