Overview

Spanish poet, playwright, and novelist FElix Lope de Vega (1562-1635) was a key figure of Golden Age Spanish literature, second only in stature to Cervantes, and is considered the founder of Spain's classical theater. In this rich and informative study, Javier Lorenzo investigates the symbolic use of space in Lope's drama, and its function as an ideological tool to promote an imagined Spanish national past. In specific plays, this book argues, historical landscapes and settings were used to foretell and legitimize the imperial present in Hapsburg Spain, allowing audiences to visualize and plot, as on a map, the country's expansionist trajectory throughout the centuries. By focusing on connections among space, drama, and empire, this book makes an important contribution to the study of literature and imperialism in early modern Spain, and equally to our understanding of the role and political significance of spatiality in Siglo de Oro comedia.

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Author:   Javier Lorenzo
Publisher:   Bucknell University Press,U.S.
Imprint:   Bucknell University Press,U.S.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.068kg
ISBN:  

9781684484928

ISBN 10:   1684484928
Pages:   202
Publication Date:   15 September 2023
Recommended Age:   From 18 to 99 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"""A fascinating and original study of space showing how theater has the unique potential to function as the ultimate vehicle to explore and, more importantly, complicate matters of our past.""--Esther Fernández ""author of To Embody the Marvelous: The Making of Illusions in Early Modern Spain"" ""An eye-opening examination of Golden Age theater focusing on how Lope de Vegas's plays use symbolic and ideological space, prefigure an imperial present (and future), and legitimize imperial expansion and territorial appropriation.""--Antonio Sánchez Jiménez ""author of Lope: El verso y la vida"" ""Lorenzo's analysis of the representation of geographical space in Lope's historical dramas provides compelling new insights concerning the reconfiguration of iconic episodes from Spain's medieval past as imperial or proto-imperial episodes. Of particular interest is the way that Lorenzo identifies absolutist and imperialist undertones in plays that feature the peripheral provincial settings of Galicia, Asturias, and Las Canarias as prefigurations of early modern colonialism.""--Barbara Simerka ""author of Knowing Subjects: Cognitive Cultural Studies and Early Modern Spanish Literature"" ""Lorenzo offers a wealth of insights to better understand a corpus of plays that Lope de Vega devised from the heights of artistic sophistication and popular acclaim. Lorenzo's vivid, clear analysis retraces Lope's steps as he reworks chronicles, myths, and maps depicting Iberia's patchwork medieval realms for his own times, with a keen eye and well-tuned ear on the imperatives of Spain's diverse, far-flung empire. Space, Drama, and Empire is a boon for scholars and students alike.""--Elizabeth Wright ""author of The Epic of Juan Latino: Dilemmas of Race and Religion in Renaissance Spain"""

Author Information

JAVIER LORENZO is an associate professor of Hispanic studies at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. He is the author of Nuevos casos, nuevas artes: Intertextualidad, autorrepresentación e ideología en la obra de Juan Boscán.  

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