Spanish Golden Age - Science topic

This paper investigates the intricate interplay of maritime imagery and the theme of love in the poetry of Luis de Góngora, one of the foremost figures of the Spanish Baroque literary movement. Góngora's work, characterized by elaborate language and profound emotional depth, often employs nautical symbols to convey the complexities of romantic rela...

The aim of this study is to perform an evaluation of one hundred Spanish Golden Age theatre plays of undisputed authorship using the R package stylo, the stylometric analysis tool developed by Eder, Rybicki, and Kestemont (2016). In this paper we will determine which algorithms obtain best results on authorial classification (method, MFW, culling,...

Juan Martínez Montañés was one of the most important sculptors and altarpiece architects of the Spanish Golden Age. The restoration of the Santa Clara church in Seville has presented a unique opportunity to study the main altarpiece, crafted by Montañés between 1621 and 1623. He was also in charge of the polychromy and gilding, believing that deleg...

Linked to the Spanish Golden Age, to the Hispanic tradition and the America’s colonization, baroque was a solid conceptual category to analyze artistic and literary practices by the end of the 20th Century. More recently, Carlos Gamerro tries to create a distinction between a baroque writing and what he calls “baroque fictions”: the former responds...

Tirso de Molina is a pseudonym of Gabriel Téllez (1573–1648). A great Mannerist playwright, he created a range of images and masks in his works and hid behind the mask in his own life, appearing in different guises. Gabriel Téllez was an outstanding theologian, a major religious figure, an exemplary monk, whereas Tirso de Molina boldly castigated t...

Los estudios publicados en este número monográfico son el fruto de un intercambio académico internacional que se ha originado en el marco del proyecto VIOLENDINGS (Violence and Happy Endings in the Spanish Golden Age Narrative) que se desarrolla en el “Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature, Culture e Mediazioni” de la “Università degli Studi di Milan...

En este artículo se realiza un estudio sobre un corpus de cinco artes de bien morir concebidas como diálogos literarios. Para ello, se han seleccionado textos escritos en diferentes etapas de los Siglos de Oro de la literatura española: 1539, 1565, 1582, 1593 y 1612. El propósito ha sido observar cómo se tratan de manera diferente, similar o matiza...

The increasing application of computational methods to the literature of the Spanish Golden Age has revealed the necessity of automating the modernization of its texts to facilitate seamless comparison and analysis. This study pioneers the employment of Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques for the transformation of Spanish Golden Age texts...

This article examines Jesuit representation of the exploits of Francis Xavier, ‘the Apostle of the East’, in celebration of his canonization in 1622 and in the Jesuit campaign to have him canonized prior to that. Pageants in Madrid, Lisbon and Antwerp are examined, along with prior pictorial depictions of Francis’ miracles and activities, taking in...

This volume gathers chapters related to the condition of women in the ancient novel. To broaden the perspective, it integrates not only papers dealing with the Greek and Roman novel as a literary genre in its own right, but also as a historical document involving aspects as diverse as history, archaeology, sociology and the history of law. The twen...

This volume gathers chapters related to the condition of women in the ancient novel. To broaden the perspective, it integrates not only papers dealing with the Greek and Roman novel as a literary genre in its own right, but also as a historical document involving aspects as diverse as history, archaeology, sociology and the history of law. The twen...

This volume gathers chapters related to the condition of women in the ancient novel. To broaden the perspective, it integrates not only papers dealing with the Greek and Roman novel as a literary genre in its own right, but also as a historical document involving aspects as diverse as history, archaeology, sociology and the history of law. The twen...

The Spanish Golden Age tragedy is assembled around the conflict of passions, which does not find an adequate channel of expression in words because there are feelings that cannot be confessed if one wants to preserve life. However, such intense emotions cannot be hidden for a long time, either. The characters discover that the eyes speak in silence...

It seemed unimaginable that the eye, denoting visuality and deemed accurate and reliable in accordance with Aristotelian theories in circulation during the Spanish Golden Age could be considered as anything other than a revered hallmark of guidance and intellect. Nevertheless, the literary phenomenon) of the picaresque emerged at the onset of the s...

This dissertation aims at equipping Spanish Philology with novel methods, tools, and proofs of concept to facilitate Digital Humanities studies of Spanish plays. In particular, it develops methods to analyse Spanish Golden Age versified plays. It departs from the theoretical grounds of dramatology, poetry, and phonology to formalise its elements as...

Resumen La vida del pintor Valdés Leal coincidió con el momento de mayor esplendor de la pintura y el teatro del llamado “Siglo de Oro” español. La abundante producción pictórica de Valdés conforma, a la vez que refleja, esta época extraordinaria. Entre su producción, como en la de cualquier otro pintor sevillano de aquel tiempo, son abundantes los...

En 1987, el importante poeta peruano Javier Sologuren (Lima, 1921-2004) publicó Catorce versos dicen…, conjunto de sonetos que se apartan de los usos de la poesía coloquial, hegemónica por aquellos años. Sologuren quiere mostrar que el soneto es válido para desplegar procedimientos de la poesía moderna y comunicar su experiencia de sujeto contempor...

A high percentage of theatrical prints and manuscripts from the aurisecular period have never been transcribed in an analogical or, of course, digital format. It is therefore impossible to use these documents to carry out searches of our interest or for the valuable computer analyses (stylometry, topic modelling, sentiment analysis, etc.) that have...

The church of San Lucas de Toledo preserves a «mute poem» dedicated to the Virgin of Hope (Virgen de la Esperanza). Unlike other similar hieroglyphs, usually disseminated in printed form during Spanish Golden Age festivities, this one is painted and framed as a permanent artifact. The solution or «reading key» to its meaning has not been preserved,...

Francisco de Zurbarán was one of the greatest painters of the Spanish Golden Age, with artworks scattered all over the world. Unfortunately, there are hardly any exhaustive studies on the pigments that he used. In this work, four canvas paintings attributed to the Zurbarán Workshop were studied. Each of them presents the figure of a different saint...

The literary histography constitutes a determining agent in establishing and displacement of literary canons. The present work explores the shift of the term National Theatre to the expression Spanish Classical Theatre exploring the basic points of different sections of historiography which make possible the terminological evolution. We study the d...

This paper analyses the vocabulary on clothing accessories from the 16th and 17th centuries. The data were obtained from original and unpublished notary documents preserved in the Provincial Historical Archive of Murcia. This research has allowed us to deepen our understanding of some terms which until now had been scarcely documented. The analysis...

Abstract This chapter delves into the reception of the Spanish Golden Age author Lope de Vega in the British Romantic periodical press. With the exception of some publications exploring Lope’s presence in works by Robert Southey and Mary Shelley, there is a con�spicuous lack of scholarly work on his literary afterlife in Romantic Great Britain, whi...

The literary canon has been traditionally governed by men and it is important to make the works of women visible in order to democratize the canon. The Spanish Golden Age is a blossoming period and there are well known male authors like Lope de Vega, but rarely do authors like Catalina Ramírez de Guzmán or Leonor de la Cueva Silva come to the mind...

The Fundación Siglo de Oro –formerly Compañía Rakatá– has been staging Spanish Golden Age and Elizabethan theatre since it was founded in 2006. Over this time, the company has developed an identity associated not only with its staging of early modern drama, but also with the influence of a series of contemporary British theatre practitioners on its...

Francisco de Zurbarán was one of the greatest painters of the Spanish Golden Age, whose artworks are scattered all over the world. Unfortunately, there are hardly any exhaustive studies on the pigments that he used. In this work, four canvas paintings attributed to the Zurbarán Workshop were studied. Each of them presents the figure of a different...

En las últimas décadas las referencias al Análisis de Redes han ganado protagonismo entre los historiadores. Hemos asistido a una auténtica proliferación de artículos, monográficos y proyectos de investigación en los que el estudio de las interconexiones en sociedades del pasado ocupa un papel central. Desafortunadamente, en algunos de estos trabaj...

This article offers a proxemic interpretation of Dido y Eneas , a Spanish Golden Age play written by Cristóbal de Morales Guerrero. It is a mythological work of which the plot is based on the protagonist’s psychological confrontation between desire, staying in Carthage with queen Dido, and duty, heading to Italy to begin the Roman lineage. Such for...

RESUMEN En el presente trabajo se aborda una investigación que muestra la consideración social de los castrati o capones en la monarquía hispánica desde los inicios de esta práctica hasta su prohibición. Se utiliza el retrato que aporta la poesía y literatura del Siglo de Oro español como mayor fuente de información, además de la utilización de la...

La pérdida de don Beltrán es uno de los romances más emblemáticos del corpus carolingio. Identificado por gran parte de la crítica como un episodio relativo a la Batalla de Roncesvalles, posiblemente derivado por vía tradicional de un cantar de gesta, narra los esfuerzos de un viejo caballero por encontrar en el campo de batalla el cuerpo de su hij...

The author presents a panoramic view regarding the construction of the «black» stereotype in the imaginary Spanish Golden Age and its later use for the representation of african and afrodescendant population in the New Spain; sociocultural space were the enslaved population of african origins had an important presence, both qualitative and quantita...

Gregorio González is a not-well-known Spanish Golden Age writer. This is mainly due to his novel El guitón Onofre not being published until 1973, several centuries after its composition. The information about the writer's life is scarce, but the preliminaries of the novel reveal some data of his biography, and the inquisitive reader can infer other...

This paper aims to clarify the date of birth of the Spanish Golden Age poet, Bernardo de Balbuena, based on the interpretation of a passage from his epic poem El Bernardo in which a remarkable element of his natal astral chart is presented: his birth under the great conjunction of 1563. After compiling all the available documentary information from...

The article seeks to demonstrate that the changing and diverse ideas of "freedom" allow us to see and contrast the historical change in the social representation of (referred as) "black" people. First, we start with the analysis of the differentiation that existed in the 15th and 16th centuries between the black and Ethiopian voices that were not s...

Objetivo: El propósito de este artículo es analizar la tensión y las relaciones entre el discurso ficcional y el discurso histórico en la España del siglo XVI a partir del estudio de los prólogos de dos libros de caballerías, Palmerín (1511) y Primaleón (1512). Metodología: Inicialmente, se ofrece una breve contextualización de las manifestaciones...

Este artículo examina una tarea clave del traductor, que es identificar las «affordances», o prestaciones, de los contextos receptores en los que el texto traducido puede prosperar como obra independiente. El artículo sugiere que nuestro creciente interés contemporáneo en lo que podríamos denominar el retorno del espíritu del barroco como estética...

Resumen En este trabajo revisamos las estampaciones del recetario áureo de Francisco Martínez Montiño, eliminando dos ediciones fantasma y añadiendo una edición valenciana. Palabras clave Cocina; Montiño; edición ilegal; edición fantasma. Title The Arte de cozina […] by Montiño (1611): Two Editions from Valencia of 1705 and Two Ghost Editions Ab...

RESUMEN Este artículo analiza la actitud de algunos intelectuales y artistas chilenos del siglo XIX frente a las obras de los pintores más destacados del Siglo de Oro español. Se reconstruye la forma en que el discurso de rechazo a la tradición artística y cultural del período colonial convivió con la admiración por Murillo, Velázquez, Ribera y Zur...

This article studies the descriptio and the passions in Luis de Granada’s theory of persuasion present in his Libro de la oración y meditación (1554) and Retórica eclesiástica (1576). For this purpose, the study inquires into some rhetoric precepts belonging to both the Ancient World and the Reinassance, in order to outline the trajectory of this r...

The huge dramatic corpus of the Spanish Golden Age still poses problems of authorship in a large number of plays attributed, with doubts, to their creators. The example of the Madrid playwright Agustín Moreto (1618–1669) is no exception, since he has a significant number of plays for which there are uncertainties about their authorship. The works h...

Reseña de Alba Carmona, Las reescrituras fílmicas de la comedia nueva: un siglo en la gran pantalla, Peter Lang (Spanish Golden Age Studies, 2), Oxford, 2019, 264 pp. ISBN: 9781788746922. / Marco Presotto, ed., El teatro clásico español en el cine, Edizioni Ca’ Foscari (Biblioteca di Rassegna Iberistica, 15), Venecia, 2019, 201 pp. ISBN: 9788869693...

The contributions that compose this book were presented at the XIV Taller Internacional de Estudios Textuales (Perugia 2018), where different issues related to the transmission of Spanish Golden Age plays and its relevance for modern editing were discussed. The relationship between autograph manuscripts and prompt books, the usus scribendi of profe...

The contributions that compose this book were presented at the XIV Taller Internacional de Estudios Textuales (Perugia 2018), where different issues related to the transmission of Spanish Golden Age plays and its relevance for modern editing were discussed. The relationship between autograph manuscripts and prompt books, the usus scribendi of profe...

The contributions that compose this book were presented at the XIV Taller Internacional de Estudios Textuales (Perugia 2018), where different issues related to the transmission of Spanish Golden Age plays and its relevance for modern editing were discussed. The relationship between autograph manuscripts and prompt books, the usus scribendi of profe...

The contributions that compose this book were presented at the XIV Taller Internacional de Estudios Textuales (Perugia 2018), where different issues related to the transmission of Spanish Golden Age plays and its relevance for modern editing were discussed. The relationship between autograph manuscripts and prompt books, the usus scribendi of profe...

The contributions that compose this book were presented at the XIV Taller Internacional de Estudios Textuales (Perugia 2018), where different issues related to the transmission of Spanish Golden Age plays and its relevance for modern editing were discussed. The relationship between autograph manuscripts and prompt books, the usus scribendi of profe...

The contributions that compose this book were presented at the XIV Taller Internacional de Estudios Textuales (Perugia 2018), where different issues related to the transmission of Spanish Golden Age plays and its relevance for modern editing were discussed. The relationship between autograph manuscripts and prompt books, the usus scribendi of profe...

The contributions that compose this book were presented at the XIV Taller Internacional de Estudios Textuales (Perugia 2018), where different issues related to the transmission of Spanish Golden Age plays and its relevance for modern editing were discussed. The relationship between autograph manuscripts and prompt books, the usus scribendi of profe...

Eugenio de Narbona publica en 1604 una obra ambigua y controvertida que cae pronto bajo el examen de la Inquisición y se retira de la circulación. La colección de casi trescientos aforismos de inspiración tacitista que recoge ese pequeño manual práctico de gobierno resulta inaceptable porque, debido a su forma, puede conducir a interpretaciones het...

p>El objetivo perseguido con este trabajo consiste en analizar una selección de voces referentes a guarniciones de piezas textiles, localizadas en relaciones de bienes, originales e inéditas, que se conservan en el Archivo Histórico Provincial de Murcia y que fueron redactadas en la zona de la Vega Alta del Segura (Murcia) durante el Siglo de Oro....

p>Dentro del estudio de la vestimenta, uno de los campos léxicos más interesantes es el del léxico relativo a los adornos y las guarniciones. Partiendo de los documentos notariales recopilados por el Corpus Léxico de Inventarios ( CorLexIn ), este estudio pretende ofrecer una descripción y análisis lexicográficos de diversos ítems léxicos concretos...

p>A partir de la documentación notarial del AHPC, analizamos algunas voces del léxico de la construcción con objeto de comprobar la incidencia de aparición de este vocabulario sectorial y de examinar su grado de diferenciación diatópica. Se trata de valorar la relevancia de estas fuentes para el estudio histórico del vocabulario de especialidad en...

Despite the current social concern about the abuse of women, psychological violence, especially verbal aggression, has not received as much attention as physical or sexual violence; perhaps because it is more subtle, perhaps because it is less visible or appreciable in the social environment, being words used in privacy of own home; maybe, for havi...

Lope (Andrucha Waddington 2010) and Teresa (Ray Loriga 2007) have much in common. Both biopics center on a revered literary figure of the Spanish Golden Age. However, in spite of their many commonalities, these films embody two distinct tendencies in the contemporary literary biopic genre: one more “typical,” represented by Lope, that focuses heavi...

The Adventure of tenere as an Auxiliary Verb in Compound Tenses in the Iberian Peninsula) Among the romance languages of the Iberian Peninsula, Portuguese stands out with the use of ter, originated from tenere, while both Spanish and Catalan use desemanticized descendants of habere to form the perfect tenses. A considerable amount of research has b...

Con base en un breve estudio de Fernando de la Granja, se profundiza en el origen y en los elementos que configuran un cuentecillo árabe protagonizado por un tuerto y que gozó de una notable difusión en las letras árabes premodernas, especialmente en la literatura de adab, y se incorporó a la tradición literaria española de los siglos XVI y XVII. E...

La chacona era uno de los bailes más difundidos y ejercitados desde finales siglo XVI en España. A pesar de que no se conserven indicaciones coreográficas y pocas partituras musicales de este, se menciona en diversos textos literarios repetidas veces. Como baile cantado y con su recurrente estribillo—o bordoncillo—particular, el cual delataba su no...

Los instrumentos de cuerda, cuando no van acompañados de canto, pasan generalmente desapercibidos en el teatro del Siglo de Oro, pero los dramaturgos asignaban a su sonoridad determinadas funciones. Este artículo analiza todas las apariciones de cordófonos en las comedias de Francisco Bances Candamo con el objetivo de sacar a la luz las dificultade...

El tirano castigado de Juan Bautista Diamante es una obra teatral que teatraliza un momento clave en la historia otomana, el asesinato del sultán Osmán II por sus súbditos. Partiendo de la fuente primaria que inspiró al dramaturgo, este estudio discute los temas de regicidio y tiranicidio en esta pieza a través del análisis de sus personajes princi...

This chapter considers don Luis de Haro’s relationship with important literary figures of the Spanish Golden Age, and includes an appendix that lists over sixty of the poems, relaciones, manuscripts and books that were dedicated to him. As a young man during the 1620s and 1630s, Haro appears to have been closely connected with leading writers of th...

During the 1940s, the Spanish animation industry based in Barcelona reached a high technical level. Despite the Franco dictatorship and austerity following the Spanish Civil War, the Catalan animation industry produced feature-length films that bore comparison with those made elsewhere in Europe. This article looks at the reasons for and the nature...

Resumo: Antônio José da Silva, ou o Judeu, foi um dramaturgo português que, no século XVIII, escreveu textos de teatro a partir de modelos tragicômicos provenientes da profícua escritura do Século de Ouro espanhol. Em Anfitrião, ou Júpiter e Alcmena, o dramaturgo recorre a uma temática mitológica desenvolvida na dramaturgia cômica desde a Roma Anti...

El siglo XIX supondrá un punto de inflexión en el mercado artístico europeo. La introducción de España en dicho mercado dará lugar a una nueva tendencia en el coleccionismo que se interesará especialmente por el arte del Siglo de Oro español. Este artículo busca analizar una de las colecciones más relevantes en todo Reino Unido por convertirse en p...

El objetivo de este trabajo es reflexionar acerca de uno de los ingredientes más invisibles del teatro del Siglo de Oro: la música instrumental y los efectos acústicos que no incluyen la participación de cantantes. Mediante el análisis de todas las apariciones de cajas o tambores militares percutidos en las comedias de Francisco Bances Candamo, con...

This article describes the unique experience I had as a graduate student of portraying Don Quijote in an adaptation of Las cortes de la muerte by Brigham Young University’s Spanish Golden Age Theater program. In the production, Don Quijote and Sancho stumble into the auto and adopt the roles of Hombre and Ángel, respectively. This unique combinatio...

After acknowledging the author’s appropriateness to be part of the roster of writers whose works have been traditionally classified as jocular and/or satirical, we have studied one of his short plays in which both of those stylistic as well as generic characteristics inherited from the short theatrical performance (entremés) of the Spanish Golden A...

Muslim Christian Interactions in Spanish Golden Age Literature

This article derives from the research which resulted in the doctoral thesis Antonio Jose da Silva: a dramaturgy made of conventions.1 It discusses the principle of carnivalization in Iberian theatre from different theoretical perspectives, including that of Mikhail Bakhtin. Through an analysis of the stock character of the gracioso, the carnivaliz...

This article focuses on the reflections on Chinese language and script included by Francisco de Herrera Maldonado (a minor figure in the Spanish Golden Age) in his little-known 1620 Historical Epitome of the Kingdom of China … By translating and commenting on the relevant contexts from both the Spanish original and its 1622 French rendition, I chal...

This paper tries to elucidate the significance of Latin schooling for the production of poetry by lining up five typical cases of recycling Roman texts, from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. The French poet Baudri de Bourgueil (ca 1050–1130) rewrote Ovid’s Heroides 16–17 within a cultural context, characteristic of the incipient “Ovidian a...

L’objectif de la présente recherche vise à contextualiser le moment théâtral et social dans lequel s’inscrit la preceptiva de Lope de Vega, Arte nuevo de hacer comedias (1606), et à évaluer les conséquences de son application sur le théâtre du xviie siècle. Pour ce faire, l’auteur analyse les changements introduits par Lope et leurs conséquences su...

The myth of Cephalus and Procris appears for the first time complete in Ovid, Ars amatoria, 3.685-746, and later in Metamorphosis, 7.672-865. As it is known, Cephalus and Procris are the protagonists of an unfortunate love story, marked by jealousy. It will end up being a disaster. The Ovidian myth has been a great source of inspiration in all the...

Una nota a propósito de dos libros recientes sobre la Leyenda Negra en la literatura del Siglo de Oro.

This paper provides a first consideration of the dissemination and impact of the novels by Sebastiano Erizzo and Niccolò Granucci in the Spanish Golden Age, focusing on two of their main works, Le sei giornate (1567) and La piacevol notte et lieto giorno (1574), respectively. The characteristics of the identified copies, some coincidences with text...

The article focuses on the first translations of a play of the Spanish Golden Age theatre to Slovak language, Calderon`s El príncipe constante by Pavel Blaho in 1868, linking his effort, to bring this Spanish drama to a broader Slovak audience. As it was based on German translations of the play, which were part of the concentrated attention of the...

The article focuses on the reception of the Spanish Golden Age theatre in the Hungarian cultural area, seeking an answer to the questions: from the beginning of the existence of the Hungarian professional theatre which plays could the Hungarian theatre audience get to know in its mother tongue, whether the plays performed were kept on programme for...

This paper aims to focus on what instructional approaches can be used by teachers when faced with some difficult materials, as is the case with poetic texts. That is to say, it is only aimed at teachers and not at learners at all. Then, as the case may be, we will view language instruction as a core cognitive skill, which provides a mechanism for d...

SUPERNATURAL SPACE AND ITS REPRESENTATION IN THE TRICKSTER OF SEVILLE AND THE STONE GUEST The character of Don Juan was formed as a literary myth after the play The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest, usually attributed to Tirso de Molina and staged for the first time circa 1630. However, it is often forgotten that the play, as its name indic...

The debates around the periodisation of the history of literature have constituted a recurrent concern among historians of literature and literary critics alike. The controversy has revolved around the acknowledgement of certain periods as such, the denomination of the same, the criteria employed to establish them, the positive or negative connotat...

In this study, I deal with the case of a most unusual nun, whose life mission was to spread the knowledge of the Holy Scriptures in vernacular language during the Counter Reformation period. She was born in Catalonia (Spain) in 1551 and she spent all her life in a Dominican monastery in Barcelona, where she died in 1624. As it is well known, the In...

This article offers an analysis of Eduardo Vaquerizo´s work La última noche de Hipatia, by assessing not only the science fiction genre but also the subcategory of time travels and by considering briefly the impact of both textual categories in the Hispanic world. Regarding Vaquerizo´s work, the article studies the narrative polyphony in the novel,...

En este trabajo se ofrece el análisis y la edición anotada del entremés La campana de descasar, de José Joaquín Benegasi y Luján (1707-1770), escritor de la época postbarroca inclinado a la literatura jocoseria cuya producción teatral (una comedia burlesca y cinco piezas breves) continúa modelos dramáticos del Siglo de Oro. // In this paper it is o...

The article dedicated to the typological comparison of El rufián dichoso by Miguel de Cervantes and El burlador de Sevilla by Tirso de Molina addresses similarities and differences between the two plays, demonstrating common traits in development of Spanish Golden Age theatre. © 2018 Instituto de Estudios Auriseculares (IDEA). All rights reserved.

This article analyses two figures of the Spanish Golden Age Literature, Don Juan and Don Quixote, which involve a series of questions or problems typical of philosophy. They don't expose a theoretical problem rather they represent it, they stage it; they are characters closed in themselves, in their madness, in their dream or solitude. This brief p...

An examination of «background» (that which is accessorial, accidental, padding, or «faraway») in the literature or painting of the Spanish Golden Age; namely, the presence of episodes, digressions, simultaneous actions or interpolations which, essentially, were meant for the reader to be emotionally involved and able to recreate in their imaginatio...

This paper studies some neoplatonic aspects which are detectable in the love poetry of the Spanish Golden Age, particularly in two sonnets of Juan de Tasis y Peralta, Conde de Villamediana (c. 1582-1622).

Reseña de: Jonathan David Bradbury. The Miscellany of the Spanish Golden Age: A Literature of Fragments. London: Routledge, 2017, 193 pp. ISBN: 978-1472429841.

This paper offers an approach to the main features and conventions of the burlesque comedy of the Spanish Golden Age, a corpus formed by about fifty parodic plays that were performed during Carnival and on St. John’s Day as part of the court festivals celebrated in the Royal Palace or in the Buen Retiro palace complex. These two features (theatre o...

Spanish literature written by captives or about captivity in North Africa distinguished itself from the majority of Spanish Golden Age works because of its positive portrayal of Jews. Not only were these literary representations benevolent, but they were also quite realistic. Like many of their historical counterparts, the literary Jews Brahín ( Lo...

Spanish literature written by captives or about captivity in North Africa distinguished itself from the majority of Spanish Golden Age works because of its positive portrayal of Jews. Not only were these literary representations benevolent, but they were also quite realistic. Like many of their historical counterparts, the literary Jews Brahín ( Lo...

Spanish literature written by captives or about captivity in North Africa distinguished itself from the majority of Spanish Golden Age works because of its positive portrayal of Jews. Not only were these literary representations benevolent, but they were also quite realistic. Like many of their historical counterparts, the literary Jews Brahín ( Lo...

Much critical work has been dedicated in recent years to the transgressive representation of gender in the plays of the Spanish Golden Age, an interest sparked in great measure by Melveena McKendrickʼs sem­inal work: Woman and Society in the Spanish Drama of the Golden Age. A Study of the «Mujer Varonil» (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1974...

Maternity protection in the Spanish Golden Age is a subject that has been only scarcely studied in this context. The objective is to find out to which extent pregnant women were considered worthy of protection, a concern that in­cludes the closely tied aspects of body, imagination, and surrounding conditions. Matters regarding food, fasting, the «f...

This study seeks to catalogue in alphabetic order the paremias that are included in the dramatic works of the ill-fated Madrid poet and friend and disciple of Lope de Vega, Juan Pérez de Montalbán, as a manifestation of a very popular convention in Spanish Golden Age dramas: The systematic incorporation of proverbs, refrains and other paremias in t...

The Spanish Golden Age: Painting and Sculpture in the Time of Velázquez. Gemäldegalerie: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, and Kunsthalle München. Exh. Cat. Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2016. 336 pp. $49.95. - Volume 71 Issue 1 - Lisandra Estevez