Stoicism, Seneca, and Seventeenth- Century Spanish Tragedy
This exciting study is essential reading for students and scholars of theater. It challenges the premise of most critical interpretations of the comedia, which are based on the notion of the originality of Lope de Vega's dramatic theory and practice and his repudiation of Classical models and the Senecan style, which formed the nucleus of sixteenth-century tragedy· , a popular but short-lived form. The book identifies thirty-one plays from the period 1596 to 1653 as a body of Golden Age tragedy with shared roots in Senecan tragedy and Stoic moral philosophy. The works, by Lope de Vega, Tirso...
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