Sociedad decapitada en el teatro del Siglo de Oro: "El villano en su rincon" de Lope de Vega, "La ventura con el nombre" de Tirso de Molina y "El amor constante" de Guillen de Castro [electronic resource]
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| Language: | Spanish |
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| Abstract: | In my dissertation, I take a look at a variety of Spanish texts from XVI and XVII centuries, focusing on the presence of the Monarch in the theater. Since the royal figure is socially fundamental in terms of building, justifying and giving sense to rising European states, my interests focuses on the study of the role of Monarch as a historical character, as a social center, as a political institution, as a ceremonial object, and as an ideological meaning. The figure of the Monarch has been analyzed as a model of Christian virtues by Dian Fox (Kings in Calderon in Characterization and Political Theory). Nevertheless, in the scene defined as a space of negotiation by Catherien Connor ("Prolegomena to the 'Popular' in Early Modern Public Theater: Contesting Power in Lope and Shakesperare"), it is impossible to establish a political posture in relation to the Monarch. The aim of this research is to explain this impossibility through the concept of the Monarch's double corporealness. Explained by Ernst H. Kantorovic in his book The King's Two Bodies, the double corporealness is the royal person consisting of both a natural body and a political body, which makes the King a sublime object. Slavoj Zizek explains the importance of the sublime object for any structure. The sublime object does not signify a specific meaning but rather creates significance by structuring objects with meaning. Therefore, the Sovereing as a sublime object established the social difference and defined the social order. However, the Kings Felipe III, Felipe IV, and Carlos II transferred their royal power (or political body) to their court favorites. For that reason, the society was without its head, was decapitated and the Spanish Golden Age theater tried to fill this emptiness with the presence of a model Monarch on the stage. On the other hand, the works I analyze reject the hailing process (by means of denying the gaze, replacing the royal body, killing the Sovereign) and reveal a fault in the social body of the country as a result of the disfunctionality of the King. |
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| Item Description: | Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-04, Section: A, page: 1294. Adviser: Julio Baena. |
| Physical Description: | 237 pages. |
| ISBN: | 9781109116595 |