Public Theater in Golden Age Madrid and Tudor-Stuart London: Class, Gender and Festive CommunityIn this comparative study of English and Spanish drama, the author concerns himself with theatrical conventions, the social significance of drama, and audience-reception in the early modern court-cities of London and Madrid. The primary focus of this study is the drama of Shakespeare and some of his contemporaries, particularly Thomas Dekker, in England, and the peasant honor plays of Lope de Vega in Spain. In engaging with these works, the study explores the representation of social conflict in the public drama of the two countries, and highlights the polyphonic appeal that the drama held for the mixed audiences of the public theatres, a communal phenomenon in which discourses of class, gender and race intersected. The author pays sustained attention to the intersections between gender and ideologies of rank, and how these produced a range of political effects in the plays he explores; the study incorporates innovative work on the role of carnival structures and gender bonding in creating pan-class communities. Cañadas provides not only literary analysis of individual plays, but also insight into the sociology of theatre as an institution. |
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... Shakespeare and Cultural Traditions : The Selected Proceedings of the International Shakespeare Association World Congress , Tokyo , 1991 ( Newark : U of Delaware P ; London & Toronto : Associated UPS , 1994 ) . Knight , Stephen , Robin ...
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The Female Role in the Theaters of London and Madrid | 41 |
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