The Limits of Illusion: A Critical Study of Calderon
(Part of the Cambridge Iberian and Latin American Studies Series)
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This is the first thorough study of Calder n in comparison with other important dramatists of the period: Lope de Vega and Tirso de Molina in Spain, Racine and Corneille in France, and Shakespeare and Marlowe in England. Cascardi studies Calder n's paradoxical engagement with illusion in its philosophical guise as scepticism. He shows on the one hand Calder n's moral will to reject illusion and on the other his theatrical need to embrace it. Cascardi discusses plays from every period to show how in Calder n's best work illusion is not rejected; instead, scepticism is absorbed. Calder n is placed in and defined against the philosophical line of Vives, Descartes, and Spinoza. Of central importance to this argument is Calder n's idea of theatre and the various transformations of that idea. This emphasis will give the book an additional interest to students, readers in philosophy and comparative literature.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521022770
ISBN13:9780521022774
Release Date:November 2005
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:200 Pages
Weight:0.66 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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