Lope de Vega's religious plays are a distinctive part of his output, but little scholarly work is available on them. This study focuses on five plays, La hermosa Ester, the Isidro plays, Lo fingido verdadero and La buena guarda. Within the context of the seventeenth-century stage, Canning examines Lope's manipulation of religious material, and his treatment of socio-literary themes - love, the role of women - and the way in which they are employed to generate audience reception. She considers the relationship between religious drama and metatheatre, focusing on Lope's techniques for highlighting the illusory nature of life and the relationship between lo verdadero and lo divino, concepts which lie at the heart of the theocentric world view of seventeenth-century Spain. The conflicting imperatives of human and divine love and the issue of identity are features of all of the plays. And she shows that the interplay between illusion and reality and the relationship between playwright and audience are crucial to Lope's dramatic output. ELAINE CANNING lectures in Spanish at the University of Wales, Bangor.
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Table of contents
- FRONTCOVER
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- ABBREVIATIONS
- Introduction
- PART I: RE-CREATION AND RE-PRESENTATION: THE CASES OF ESTHER AND ISIDRO
- 1 La hermosa Ester and the Re-creation of the Biblical Esther
- 2 The Re-presentation of Madrid’s patrón in La niñez de San Isidro and La juventud de San Isidro
- PART II: DRAMATISING THE DRAMATIC: METATHEATRE AND THE COMEDIA DE TEMA RELIGIOSO
- 3 Metatheatre and the Spanish comedia religiosa: An overview
- 4 Lo fingido verdadero as metaplay
- 5 Doña Clara – saint or sinner? Role-playing within the Role in La buena guarda
- CONCLUSION
- APPENDIX
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
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