Space, Drama, and Empire : : Mapping the Past in Lope de Vega's Comedia / / Javier Lorenzo.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
• VerfasserIn: Lorenzo, Javier,
• Place / Publishing House: Lewisburg, PA : : Bucknell University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Campos Ibéricos: Bucknell Studies in Iberian Literatures and Cultures
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (202 p.) :; 1 color photograph and 4 B-W photographs

Spanish poet, playwright, and novelist Félix 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Note on Translations -- Introduction -- 1. Space and the Imperial Appropriation of the Past in the Lopian Comedia -- 2. “Que los reyes nunca están lejos” -- 3. Born to Expand -- 4. Endangered from Within -- 5. Atlantic Conquests, Transatlantic Echoes -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author