Role-Play and the World as Stage in the Comedia (Liverpool University Press - Liverpool Music Symposium)
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: May 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780853235484
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; European history: c 1750 to c 1900; Plays & playwrights: 16th to 18th centuries; Plays & playwrights: classical, early & medieval; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; c 1000 CE to c 1500; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Spanish; Spain; Drama; European - Spanish & Portuguese; Literary Criticism / Drama; General
Description: This text investigates the frequent and varied uses made by Spanish golden-age dramatists of the notion of the play-within-a-play. It examines how and why playwrights of the period time and again created characters who dramatise themselves.