1st Edition
Monarchy, Political Culture, and Drama in Seventeenth-Century Madrid Theater of Negotiation
By Jodi Campbell
Copyright 2006
182 Pages
by
Routledge
181 Pages
by
Routledge
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In early modern Spain, theater reached the height of its popularity during the same decades in which Spanish monarchs were striving to consolidate their power. Jodi Campbell uses the dramatic production of seventeenth-century Madrid to understand how ordinary Spaniards perceived the political developments of this period. Through a study of thirty-three plays by four of the most popular... Read more
Chapter 1 Plays and Politics; Chapter 2 The World of the Stage; Chapter 3 Kings in Theory: Competing Ideals of Kingship; Chapter 4 Kings in Action: Evaluations of the Practice of Kingship; Chapter 5 Conclusion: The Curtain Falls;
Biography
Jodi Campbell is Associate Professor of Early Modern European History at Texas Christian University, USA.
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