Space, Drama, and Empire

Mapping the Past in Lope de Vega's Comedia

Javier Lorenzo (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

202 Seiten

2023
Bucknell University Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-68448-492-8 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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.

List of Illustrations
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

Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	26.09.2023
Reihe/Serie	Campos Ibéricos: Bucknell Studies in Iberian Literatures and Cultures
Zusatzinfo	1 color photograph and 4 B-W photographs
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	68 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-68448-492-8 / 1684484928
ISBN-13	978-1-68448-492-8 / 9781684484928
Zustand	Neuware