Title: The Play of Power: Calderon's Fieras afemina Amor and La estatua de Prometeo
Abstract:U D in a three-century oblivion one major portion of his work-the group of mythological court plays which Calder6n began writing as early as the 1630s and which took the place of the comedia as his se...U D in a three-century oblivion one major portion of his work-the group of mythological court plays which Calder6n began writing as early as the 1630s and which took the place of the comedia as his secular dramatic expression after his ordination in the 1650s. They were part of-and in many senses a culmination of-an explosion of spectacular court entertainment which occurred throughout Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Until very recently, however, most critics have agreed with Men6ndez y Pelayo, who called the mythological dramas g6neros inferiores, and said of them:Read More
Publication Year: 1988
Publication Date: 1988-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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