Performing the king divine
Subtitle: the early modern Spanish aulic festival
By: Lucas A. Marchante-Aragón
Series: Teatro del siglo de oro. Estudios de literatura -- 128; Teatro del Siglo de Oro -- 128.
Publisher: Edition Reichenberger
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Kassel
Language: ger
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9783944244549
Subjects: Spanish drama; History and criticism; Courts and courtiers in literature; Classical period
Description: Performing the King Divine' proposes a framework for the systematic consideration of early modern festivals in the Spanish courts as a coherent phenomenon of ritual performance for the creation of a divine image of royal power using a historical, artistic, literary and anthropological approach. Starting with medieval examples that convey the ruler?s physical proximity to the divine, and ending with the identification of the ruler with the divine during the reign of the last Spanish Habsburg monarch Charles II, this study looks at the evolution of the discourse that represents the Habsburg dynasty?s divinely inspired imperial rights by means of performance within the cultural context of the productions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical (pages 267-290) references and index.