Allegories of Kingship Calderï¿½n and the Anti-Machiavellian Tradition

Name: Allegories of Kingship Calderï¿½n and the Anti-Machiavellian Tradition
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ISBN: 9780271014562

ISBN-10: 0271014563

ISBN-13: 9780271014562

Edition: 1995

Authors: Stephen Rupp

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This study examines issues in politics and political theory in selected works of Pedro Caldern de la Barca (1600-1681), the major dramatist of the middle and later decades of the seventeenth century in Spain. By analyzing secular dramas (comedias) and religious plays (autos sacramentales), Stephen Rupp demonstrates Caldern's awareness of the ideas and institutions of power in Hapsburg Spain and explores the terms of his intervention in the long debate over the principles of Christian statecraft. Through references to Rivadeneira, Saavedra Fajardo, and Quevedo, Rupp describes the anti-Machiavellian theory of kingship that informs Caldern's political theater.Rupp's argument proceeds from…

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List price: $54.95
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Publication date: 11/20/1995
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 200
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Stephen Rupp is an associate professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Toronto.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



History and The Allegories of Kingship



Kingship and the Law La Vida Es Sueï¿½o (comedia and Auto) And a Dios Por Razï¿½n De Estado



Kingship and the State La Cisma De Inglaterra And El Maestrazgo Del Toisï¿½n



Allegory And Affairs of State El Nuevo Palacio Del Retiro And El Lifio Y La Azucena


Conclusion


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Index