Conscience on Stage : : The Comedia as Casuistry in Early Modern Spain / / Hilaire Kallendorf.

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...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:University of Toronto Romance Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Rise of Casuistry in Spain, the Flowering of Jesuit School Drama, and the Jesuit Education of Spanish Playwrights
  • 1. The Vocabulary of Casuistry
  • 2. '¿Qué he de hacer?' / 'What should I do?'
  • 3. Asking for Advice: Class, Gender, and the Supernatural
  • 4. Constructions of Conscience
  • 5. Casuistry and Theory
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index