| Center |
| Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication |
| Departament |
| Spanish |
| Lecturers in charge |
| F6064 - EVANGELINA RODRIGUEZ CUADROS |
| Met. Docent |
| Met. Avaluació |
| Final examination - - |
| Bibliografia |
| Continguts |
| ESSENTIAL OBJECTIVES OF THE SUBJECT AND THE COURSE: A monographical study of XVII century theater characteristics in theoretical terms (starting from the pattern settled down by the Lopesca generation in The New Art of Making Comedies) and in practical terms, paying attention to Lope de Vega complementary models and of Calderón de la Barca, drama representative of the called second generation, fully Baroque. The dramatical proposals of the essential dramatic genres will be designed (comedy, tragedy, sacramental acts). The method will look for a balance between the generational and historical focus and the critical-stylistic-dramatical aspects by means of a detained reading of the works proposed. PROGRAM OF THE COURSE: 1. Theatrical fact in the Spanish XVII century. Ritual and ideological character of theater in the Century of Gold. 2. Critical reading of the New Art of Making Comedies of Lope de Vega time. Doctrinal and pragmatic development. 3. Calderón de la Barca: formation and vision of the world. The critical reception of his work. The Calderonian drama as synthesis of the cultural and theatrical Baroque semantics. 4. General theory of comedy in the Century of Gold. 5. Layer and sword comedy. The Calderonian pattern: La Dama Duende and No hay cosa como callar. 6. the called comedy or historical drama: from the lopesque pattern (Fuenteovejuna) (recommended reading) to the Calderonian pattern: Alcalde de Zalamea. |