Don Pedro Calderón 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 Calderón's secular, three-act plays...

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Main Author:	Parker, Alexander A. 1908-1989 (Author)
Other Authors:	Kong, Deborah (Editor)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1988
Series:	Major European authors
Subjects:	Calderón de la Barca, Pedro / 1600-1681 / Criticism and interpretation Calderón de la Barca, Pedro > 1600-1681 Komödie Comedia Aufsatzsammlung
Online Access:	BSB01 UBG01 Volltext
Summary:	Don Pedro Calderón 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 Calderón'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 Calderón's own view of the intellectual life and the social, ethical and moral problems of this age. From the tensions of Calderón'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 Calderón raises all these human problems onto a wide 'philosophical' level through his use of myths and symbols
Item Description:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 417 pages)
ISBN:	9780511897917
DOI:	10.1017/CBO9780511897917