Space, Drama, and Empire: Mapping the Past in Lope de Vega's Comedia: Campos Ibéricos: Bucknell Studies in Iberian Literatures and Cultures
Autor Javier Lorenzoen Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 sep 2023 – vârsta ani
Spanish poet, playwright, and novelist Félix Lope de Vega (1562–1635) was a key figure of Golden Age Spanish literature, second only in stature to Cervantes, and is considered the founder of Spain’s classical theater. In this rich and informative study, Javier Lorenzo investigates the symbolic use of space in Lope’s drama and its function as an ideological tool to promote an imagined Spanish national past. In specific plays, this book argues, historical landscapes and settings were used to foretell and legitimize the imperial present in Hapsburg Spain, allowing audiences to visualize and plot, as on a map, the country’s expansionist trajectory throughout the centuries. By focusing on connections among space, drama, and empire, this book makes an important contribution to the study of literature and imperialism in early modern Spain and equally to our understanding of the role and political significance of spatiality in Siglo de Oro comedia.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781684484911
ISBN-10: 168448491X
Pagini: 202
Ilustrații: 1 color photograph and 4 B-W photographs
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.05 kg
Editura: Bucknell University Press
Colecția Bucknell University Press
Seria Campos Ibéricos: Bucknell Studies in Iberian Literatures and Cultures
ISBN-10: 168448491X
Pagini: 202
Ilustrații: 1 color photograph and 4 B-W photographs
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.05 kg
Editura: Bucknell University Press
Colecția Bucknell University Press
Seria Campos Ibéricos: Bucknell Studies in Iberian Literatures and Cultures
Notă biografică
JAVIER LORENZO is an associate professor of Hispanic studies at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. He is the author of Nuevos casos, nuevas artes: Intertextualidad, autorrepresentación e ideología en la obra de Juan Boscán.
Cuprins
List of Illustrations
A Note on Translations
Introduction
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index
A Note on Translations
Introduction
- Space and the Imperial Appropriation of the Past in the Lopian comedia
- “Que los reyes nunca están lejos”: Empire and Metatheatricality in El mejor alcalde, el rey
- Born to Expand: Space, Figura, and Empire in Las famosas asturianas
- Endangered from Within: Space and Difference in Las paces de los reyesy judía de Toledo
- Atlantic Conquests, Transatlantic Echoes: Space, Gender, and Dietetics in Los guanches de Tenerife y conquista de Canaria
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index
Recenzii
“A fascinating and original study of space showing how theater has the unique potential to function as the ultimate vehicle to explore and, more importantly, complicate matters of our past.”
“An eye-opening examination of Golden Age theater focusing on how Lope de Vegas’s plays use symbolic and ideological space, prefigure an imperial present (and future), and legitimize imperial expansion and territorial appropriation.”
“Lorenzo offers a wealth of insights to better understand a corpus of plays that Lope de Vega devised from the heights of artistic sophistication and popular acclaim. Lorenzo’s vivid, clear analysis retraces Lope’s steps as he reworks chronicles, myths, and maps depicting Iberia’s patchwork medieval realms for his own times, with a keen eye and well-tuned ear on the imperatives of Spain’s diverse, far-flung empire. Space, Drama, and Empire is a boon for scholars and students alike.”
“Lorenzo’s analysis of the representation of geographical space in Lope’s historical dramas provides compelling new insights concerning the reconfiguration of iconic episodes from Spain’s medieval past as imperial or proto-imperial episodes. Of particular interest is the way that Lorenzo identifies absolutist and imperialist undertones in plays that feature the peripheral provincial settings of Galicia, Asturias, and Las Canarias as prefigurations of early modern colonialism.”
"Lope used Spanish history to project the aims and the armaments of imperial Spain, tying history to geography... Lorenzo demonstrates how Lope reappropriated medieval texts, testimonies, myths, and maps in order to connect them to the ideology and the aspirations of empire. Lorenzo profits from the current interest in the study of space, and he offers key analyses of Lope’s singular vision. The comprehensive field of cultural studies has opened doors to the investigation of literary and dramatic works, and Lorenzo builds upon the research and the commentaries of his predecessors as he observes and attempts to decipher Lope’s particular sensibility. The presentation and the evaluations are clear and well written, and the arguments are sound and original."
“An eye-opening examination of Golden Age theater focusing on how Lope de Vegas’s plays use symbolic and ideological space, prefigure an imperial present (and future), and legitimize imperial expansion and territorial appropriation.”
“Lorenzo offers a wealth of insights to better understand a corpus of plays that Lope de Vega devised from the heights of artistic sophistication and popular acclaim. Lorenzo’s vivid, clear analysis retraces Lope’s steps as he reworks chronicles, myths, and maps depicting Iberia’s patchwork medieval realms for his own times, with a keen eye and well-tuned ear on the imperatives of Spain’s diverse, far-flung empire. Space, Drama, and Empire is a boon for scholars and students alike.”
“Lorenzo’s analysis of the representation of geographical space in Lope’s historical dramas provides compelling new insights concerning the reconfiguration of iconic episodes from Spain’s medieval past as imperial or proto-imperial episodes. Of particular interest is the way that Lorenzo identifies absolutist and imperialist undertones in plays that feature the peripheral provincial settings of Galicia, Asturias, and Las Canarias as prefigurations of early modern colonialism.”
"Lope used Spanish history to project the aims and the armaments of imperial Spain, tying history to geography... Lorenzo demonstrates how Lope reappropriated medieval texts, testimonies, myths, and maps in order to connect them to the ideology and the aspirations of empire. Lorenzo profits from the current interest in the study of space, and he offers key analyses of Lope’s singular vision. The comprehensive field of cultural studies has opened doors to the investigation of literary and dramatic works, and Lorenzo builds upon the research and the commentaries of his predecessors as he observes and attempts to decipher Lope’s particular sensibility. The presentation and the evaluations are clear and well written, and the arguments are sound and original."
Descriere
Space, Drama, and Empire examines the role that space played as a vehicle to imperialize Spain’s history in Lope de Vega’s theater. Lope’s national history plays, this book argues, used the landscapes and settings of the past to foretell and legitimize Spain’s imperial present and to “map” or plot its expansionist trajectory throughout the centuries.