| Calderón: The Imagery of Tragedy Contributor(s): Lauer, A. Robert (Editor), Suscavage, Charlene E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820413968 ISBN-13: 9780820413969 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $55.05 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 1992 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama - Literary Criticism | European - Spanish & Portuguese - Performing Arts | Theater - History & Criticism |
| Dewey: 862.3 |
| LCCN: 91016880 |
| Series: Proceedings of the Xith Congress of the International Compar |
| Physical Information: 223 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Can there be a -true- Spanish tragedy? The discussion of this question and its controversial affirmative answer form the basis of "Calderon: The Imagery of tragedy." In her revaluation of the concept of tragedy in Calderonian drama, Professor Suscavage has insisted that the plays themselves be viewed, not as artifacts nor historical, philosophical or religious period-pieces, but as living structures of imagery. By means of an intrinsic analysis of eight plays, the author defends the proposition that the -tragic- cannot be pigeonholed into one definition or one cultural heritage, and asserts that Spanish Golden Age dramatists did indeed create works as valid as any other in the accepted -tragic- canon." |