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Between History and Fiction

The Early Modern Spanish Siege Play

by Tracy Crowe Morey (Author)
©2010 Thesis 176 Pages

Summary

This study explores a number of early modern comedias that deal with historical siege or military episodes in the history of the Iberian peoples. Cervantes’s La Numancia, Lope de Vega’s El asalto de Mastrique and his lesser known La nueva victoria de don Gonzalo de Córdoba, Calderón de la Barca’s El sitio de Bredá, and Vélez de Guevara’s El Hércules de Ocaña are key texts examined here. Taking the distinction between history and fiction in Neo-Aristotelian literary theory as a point of departure, this book considers the intellectual and historical conditions that affect the ways in which early modern dramatists interpret historical events according to their own literary and ideological purposes. The interplay of history and fiction demonstrates uses and discontents of legitimizing fiction in the early modern period. Parallel themes of epic and siege intermingled with romance and carnivalesque humour, provide alternative perspectives to early modern representations of empire and war on the Spanish stage.

Details

Pages
176
Publication Year
2010
ISBN (PDF)
9783035100365
ISBN (Softcover)
9783034303033
DOI
10.3726/978-3-0351-0036-5
Language
English
Publication date
2011 (January)
Keywords
Spanien Antike und Mittelalter Literary Theory
Published
Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2010. 176 pp.

Biographical notes

Tracy Crowe Morey (Author)

The Author: Tracy Crowe Morey received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto and currently teaches at Brock University, Canada. She is a contributing author in Monstrous Deviations in Literatures and the Arts and her current research deals with counter-histories and censorship in both the Latin American and Iberian contexts.

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