Through a formalist, structuralist analysis, Rene Pedro Garay defines the Vicente comedias against their socio-historical backdrop, and the literary milieu that witnessed their creation. By doing so, Garay defends the un-Aristotelian medieval tradition, tracing the theory behind Vicente's comedies through Dante and the pre-sixteenth Century Iberian tradition, and placing it in the trajectory towards the birth of the Renaissance. He then charts this humanist comedic structure in two plays, the Comedia de Rubena and Comedia do viuvo, corroborating Vicente's role in determining the form of subsequent comedic drama in Spain.
ISBN: | 9780807892343 |
Publication date: | 30th January 1989 |
Author: | René Pedro Garay |
Publisher: | The University of North Carolina Press |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 250 pages |
Series: | North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures |
Genres: |
Literary studies: plays and playwrights Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600 |