Poetry as Play
'Gongorismo' and the 'Comedia.'
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 1991
XVIII, 260 pages
978-90-272-7773-2 (ISBN)
Description
During the Golden Age, poetry and drama entered into a dynamic intertextual and intergeneric exchange. The Comedia appropriated the different poetic currents prevalent during the Renaissance and also often enacted the controversies surrounding poetic language. Of particular interest is the influence of gongorismo on the comedia. Luis de Góngora himself experimented with dramatic form in his two little-known plays, Las firmezas de Isabela and El doctor Carlino. In his quest for effective dramatic language, Lope de Vega dramatized Gongorine language through both parody and respectful imitation. Calderón de la Barca, whose plays represent the culmination of Góngora's influence on Golden Age theater, transformed gongorismo into a rich, performative code that functions simultaneously as poetic discourse and dramatic convention.
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Content
- POETRY AS PLAY
- Editorial page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Table of contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. The Comedia Nueva and Poetic Practice in the Golden Age
- I. INDETERMINACY OF GENRE IN THE COMEDIA NUEVA
- II. POETIC RENOVATIO AND ITS IMPACT ON THE COMEDIA
- A. THE ROMANCERO AND THE COMEDIA
- B. PETRARCHISM AND AMATORY POETRY IN THE COMEDIA
- C. THE COMEDIA AND GONGORISMO
- 2. Theatricality and Dramatic Attitude in Renaissance and Baroque Poetry
- I. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON BAROQUE THEATRICALITY
- A. THE ORALITY AND PUBLIC NATURE OF POETRY
- B. THE CERTÁMENES POÉTICOS
- C. DRAMATIZING THE LYRIC VOICE
- D. THE POETRY OF SELF-FASHIONING
- E. BAROQUE METAPHOR
- II. ANALOGIES BETWEEN POETIC DISCOURSE AND DRAMATIC CONVENTION
- 3. Lope and Góngora Revisited
- I. PERSONAL RIVALRY AND TEXTUAL REPERCUSSIONS
- A. GÓNGORA'S PARODIES OF LOPE
- B. LOPE'S AMBIGUOUS RESPONSE
- II. SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ATTITUDES TOWARD LOPE'S COMEDIA AND GÓNGORA'S POETRY
- A. CONTROVERSIES OVER THE COMEDIA
- B. CONTROVERSIES OVER GÓNGORA'S POETRY
- C. DEFENSES OF COMEDIA AND GÓNGORA'S POETRY
- 4. Góngora and the Comedia (Part I): Las firmezas de Isabela: Transforming the Model
- I. CHARACTERIZATION AND ACTION IN LAS FIRMEZAS
- II. DIALOGUE, MONOLOGUE, AND ASIDE
- III. DRAMATIZING POETRY
- 5. Góngora and the Comedia (Part II): Parody as Performance in El doctor Carlino
- 6. The Critique of Góngora and Culteranismo in Lope's Comedias
- I. THE STORY OF ANGÉLICA
- II. EL CAPELLÁN DE LA VIRGEN
- III. LA DAMA BOBA
- IV. LA DOROTEA AND LAS BIZARRÍAS DE BELISA: LOPE'S FINAL CRITIQUE AND EMBRACE OF GONGORISMO
- 7. Gongorismo and Dramatic Practice after Lope
- I. GONGORINE REPERCUSSIONS IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY PLAYS
- II. "COLORES Y RUIDOS": GONGORISMO AND CALDERÓN'S THEATER
- A. CALDERONIAN DRAMA AND THE NEW THEATRICAL AESTHETIC
- B. THE COMEDIA AS SELF-CONSCIOUS GENRE
- C. THE POETRY OF CALDERÓN'S PLAYS
- D. THEATRICALITY AND GONGORISMO
- III. CONCLUSIONS
- Notes
- Works Consulted
- Index
