Refiguring the Hero From Peasant to Noble in Lope de Vega and Calderï¿½n

Name: Refiguring the Hero From Peasant to Noble in Lope de Vega and Calderï¿½n
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ISBN: 9780271026336

ISBN-10: 0271026332

ISBN-13: 9780271026336

Edition: 1991

Authors: Dian Fox

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Refiguring the Hero reassesses the social significance of several of the most widely read plays of Spain's Golden Age in light of then-contempory ideas about heroism.The Spanish dramatists Lope de Vega and Pedro Calderon de la Barca, near contemporaries of Shakespeare, are hailed by Hispanists as democrats at heart for making heroes, in both the literary and the positive moral sense, of peasants. Spanish drama is alleged to be the first literature in the Western world to find the common man worthy of heroic status. Refiguring the Hero reevaluates the place of the canon of Spanish Golden Age drama within its European context.The book discusses European literary heroism through the…

Book details

List price: $40.95
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Publication date: 9/15/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 260
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.69" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English