A star-crossed Golden Age
Subtitle: myth and the Spanish comedia
By: edited by Frederick A. de Armas.
Contributors: De Armas, Frederick Alfred.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Lewisburg [Pa.]; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
Subjects: Spanish drama -- Classical period, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; Mythology in literature
Description: This collection of essays grew out of a National Endowment for the Humanities Institute directed by Frederick A. de Armas and contains essays by the director, some of the visiting faculty, and the participants.

The book seeks to develop the link between mythology and the comedia through a number of approaches, including astrology, cartomancy, pre-Socratic elemental cosmology, iconography, hagiography, metamorphoses, Lacanian psychoanalysis, Jungian principles, the philosophy of Schopenhauer, Santayana's poetics, syncretism, gender studies, and Vedic theories.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-242) and index.