The Limits of Illusion

A Critical Study of Calderon

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Paperback | 17 November 2005

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This is the first thorough study of Calderon 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 Calderon's paradoxical engagement with illusion in its philosophical guise as scepticism. He shows on the one hand Calderon'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 Calderon's best work illusion is not rejected; instead, scepticism is absorbed. Calderon is placed in and defined against the philosophical line of Vives, Descartes, and Spinoza. Of central importance to this argument is Calderon'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."

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Non-Fiction Literature, Poetry & Plays Plays History & Criticism of Literature Literary Studies of Plays & Playwrights General Literary Studies Literary Studies from 1500 to 1800

Preface
Acknowledgments
Note on texts and notes
Introduction
La vida es sueno: Calder=n's idea of a theatre
La dama duende
Calder=n and Tirso: El galan fantasma
El secreto a voces: language and social illusion
Toward tragedy
El mFdico de su honra
Herod and Hercules: theatrical space and the body
El magico prodigioso and the theatre of alchemy
The illusions of history
Authority and illusion: En la vida todo es verdad y too mentira
The use of myth: Eco y Narciso
Prometheus and the theatre of the mind
Calder=n's last play: the comedia as technology and romance
Notes
Index
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