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Author Kallendorf, Hilaire, 1974-

Title Conscience on stage : the Comedia as casuistry in early modern Spain / Hilaire Kallendorf
Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (x, 299 pages)
Series University of Toronto romance series
University of Toronto romance series (Unnumbered)
Contents Introduction : the rise of casuistry in Spain, the flowering of Jesuit school drama, and the Jesuit education of Spanish playwrights -- The vocabulary of casuistry -- '¿Qué he de hacer?' / 'What should I do?' -- Asking for advice : class, gender, and the supernatural -- Constructions of conscience -- Casuistry and theory
Summary It is no accident that some variation of the question 'What should I do?' appears in over three-quarters of the comedic plays of the Spanish Golden Age. Casuistical dialogue was a concern, even an obsession, of Spanish playwrights during the seventeenth century, many of whom were educated by Jesuit casuists. Conscience on Stage is a study of casuistry or case morality as the foundation for a poetics of seventeenth-century Spanish comedias.Hilaire Kallendorf examines the Jesuit upbringing and casuistical education of major playwrights of the Spanish Golden Age, many of whom were also priests, and introduces the vocabulary of casuistry, as expressed in both confessors' manuals and in stage plays. Engaging issues of class, gender, and age to explore scenes of advice-giving and receiving, she demonstrates how the culture-specific construct of 'conscience' in early modern Spain can be recovered by means of a Foucauldian genealogy, which enlists the skills of philology at the service of a larger vision of the history of ideas. 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-273) and index
Notes Includes some text in Spanish
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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
DRAMA -- European -- General.
DRAMA -- Continental European.
Confession (Liturgy) -- Catholic Church
Casuistry
Casuistry in literature
Christianity in literature
Confession in literature
Conscience in literature
Spanish drama -- Classical period
Spanish drama (Comedy)
Comedia
Kasuistik
Komödie -- spanische -- Geschichte 16. und 17. Jh.
Komödie -- Spanisch -- Kasuistik -- Geschichte -- 1500-1700.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2007531852
ISBN 9781442684218
1442684216