Allegories of Kingship: Calderón and the Anti-Machiavellian Tradition

by Stephen James Rupp and Stephen Rupp

Book Overview

This study examines issues in politics and political theory in selected works of Pedro Calder?n de la Barca (1600-1681), the major dramatist of the middle and later decades of the seventeenth century in Spain. By analyzing secular dramas (comedias) and religious plays (autos sacramentales), Stephen Rupp demonstrates Calder?n's awareness of the ideas and institutions of power in Hapsburg Spain and explores the terms of his intervention in the long...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271026677
• ISBN13: 9780271026671
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"