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Pedro Calderón de la Barca and the World Theatre in Early Modern Europe : The Theatrum Mundi of Celebration / Rasmus Vangshardt.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Early Drama, Art, and MusicPublisher: Kalamazoo, MI : Medieval Institute Publications, [2023]Copyright date: ©2024Description: 1 online resource (XIV, 240 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501527173
  • 9781501517020
  • 9781501517006
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 792.09409032
LOC classification:
  • PN2174 .V36 2024
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Texts and Translations -- Introduction: Plaything or Purpose -- Chapter 1 A Poetics of Festivity -- Chapter 2 A Circular Colosseum: The Loa -- Chapter 3 El gran teatro del mundo -- Chapter 4 Aesthetic Theodicy -- Conclusion: “The Modern Age Begins with an Act of Theodicy” -- Bibliography -- Index of Names
Summary: Rasmus Vangshardt offers an original interpretation of one of the most famous images of literary history, the theatrum mundi. By applying methods of comparative literature, hispanic studies, and theology, he reconsiders the world theatre’s historical peak in early modern Europe in general and the Spanish Golden Age in particular. The author presents a new close reading of Pedro Calderón’s El gran teatro del mundo (c. 1633–36) and outlines the historical and systematic framework for a theatrum mundi of celebration. This concept entails using art to justify human existence in the face of changing conceptions of the cosmos: an early modern aesthetic theodicy and a justification of the world in that liminal space between drama and ritual. By discussing historiographical theories of early modern Europe, especially those of Hans Blumenberg and Bruno Latour, and through conversations with Shakespearean drama and Spanish Golden Age classics, Vangshardt also argues that the theatrum mundi of celebration questions traditional assumptions of great divides between the Middle Ages and Early Modernity and challenges theories of a European-wide early modern sense of crisis.
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Texts and Translations -- Introduction: Plaything or Purpose -- Chapter 1 A Poetics of Festivity -- Chapter 2 A Circular Colosseum: The Loa -- Chapter 3 El gran teatro del mundo -- Chapter 4 Aesthetic Theodicy -- Conclusion: “The Modern Age Begins with an Act of Theodicy” -- Bibliography -- Index of Names

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Rasmus Vangshardt offers an original interpretation of one of the most famous images of literary history, the theatrum mundi. By applying methods of comparative literature, hispanic studies, and theology, he reconsiders the world theatre’s historical peak in early modern Europe in general and the Spanish Golden Age in particular. The author presents a new close reading of Pedro Calderón’s El gran teatro del mundo (c. 1633–36) and outlines the historical and systematic framework for a theatrum mundi of celebration. This concept entails using art to justify human existence in the face of changing conceptions of the cosmos: an early modern aesthetic theodicy and a justification of the world in that liminal space between drama and ritual. By discussing historiographical theories of early modern Europe, especially those of Hans Blumenberg and Bruno Latour, and through conversations with Shakespearean drama and Spanish Golden Age classics, Vangshardt also argues that the theatrum mundi of celebration questions traditional assumptions of great divides between the Middle Ages and Early Modernity and challenges theories of a European-wide early modern sense of crisis.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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