Conscience on stage
Subtitle: the Comedia as casuistry in early modern Spain
By: Hilaire Kallendorf
Series: University of Toronto romance series
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9780802092298
Subjects: Spanish drama (Comedy) -- History and criticism; Spanish drama -- Classical period, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; Casuistry in literature; Casuistry; Conscience in literature; Confession in literature; Confession (Liturgy) -- Catholic Church -- History -- 17th century
Description: "It is no accident that some variation of the question 'What should I do?' appears in over three-quarters of the comedic plays of the Spanish Golden Age. Casuistical dialogue was a concern, even an obsession, of Spanish playwrights during the seventeenth century, many of whom were educated by Jesuit casuists. Conscience on Stage is a study of casuistry or case morality as the foundation for a poetics of seventeenth-century Spanish comedias." "Hilaire Kallendorf examines the Jesuit upbringing and casuistical education of major playwrights of the Spanish Golden Age, many of whom were also priests, and introduces the vocabulary of casuistry, as expressed in both confessors' manuals and in stage plays."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-273) and index

Includes some text in Spanish