Title Conscience on Stage : the Comedia as Casuistry in Early Modern Spain

Edition 2nd ed Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (310 pages) Series University of Toronto Romance Series University of Toronto romance series. Contents Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Rise of Casuistry in Spain, the Flowering of Jesuit School Drama, and the Jesuit Education of Spanish Playwrights -- Renaissance European Casuistry and Its Manifestations in Spain -- Jesuit School Drama -- Mainstream Dramatists Educated by Jesuits -- Casuistry in Action on the Jesuit School Stage -- 1 The Vocabulary of Casuistry -- Casos and Case Morality -- Hypothetical Scenarios -- 'To Flee the Occasion of Sin' -- Competing Obligations -- 2 '¿Qué he de hacer?' / 'What should I do?' -- Questions of Strategy -- Moral Dilemmas and Conflicting Duties -- Hierarchies of Virtue and Vice -- Comedias and Confessional Manuals -- The Double Bind -- The Casuistical Dramatic Monologue and Tragedy -- 3 Asking for Advice: Class, Gender, and the Supernatural -- Rulers and Subjects, Masters and Servants -- Wave Imagery, Blindness, and Labyrinths -- Soliloquies and Supernatural Entities -- The Gendering of Casuistry -- Are Men or Women More Casuistical? -- 4 Constructions of Conscience -- The Conscience, in Action and Acted Upon -- Descriptions of Clear and Troubled Consciences -- Conscience's Auxiliaries -- Synonyms and Antonyms for Conscience -- 'Symptoms' or Physical Manifestations of Conscience -- 5 Casuistry and Theory -- Genealogies of Conscience -- The Relationship of Theatre to Casuistry -- The Jesuit Contribution to Spanish Literary Theory and Practice -- Poetics of the Comedia in Early Modern Spain -- Comedia or Quaestio? -- Dilatio, Deferral, and Différance -- 'The Soul of Spain' -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z Summary This study outlines and reiterates the relationship of theatre to casuistry, the Jesuit contributions to Spanish literary theory and practice, and the importance of casuistry for the study of early modern subjectivity Notes Print version record Subject Spanish drama (Comedy) -- History and criticism Spanish drama -- Classical period, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism Christianity in literature. Casuistry in literature. Casuistry. Conscience in literature. Confession in literature. Confession (Liturgy) -- Catholic Church -- History -- 17th century Confession (Liturgy) -- Catholic Church Casuistry Casuistry in literature Christianity in literature Confession in literature Conscience in literature Spanish drama -- Classical period Spanish drama (Comedy) Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book Author Kallendorf, Hillaire ISBN 9781442684218 1442684216

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