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A study of the relationship betwen court festivity and theatre in 16c Spain. Dr Ferrer Valls studies the relationship between court festivity and theatre in the sixteenth century, placing special emphasis on staging. She argues that throughout the reign of Philip II court spectacle perpetuates the complicated staging of traditional performances, but with greater emphasis on their dramatic aspects and on the use of music and song. In the first two decades of the seventeenth century, and above all in specific plays by Lope de Vega, court spectacles come to reflect also the influence of Italian...

This volume contains the full text of El abencerraje by Spanish writer Antonio de Villegas (c.1522-c.1551).

Don Catrín de la Fachenda is a picaresque novel by the Mexican writer José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi (1776-1827), best known as the author of El periquillo sarniento (The Itching Parrot), often called the first Latin American novel. Don Catrín is three things at once: a rakish pícaro in the tradition of the picaresque; a catrín, a dandy or fop; and a criollo, a person born in the New World and belonging to the same dominant class as their Spanish-born parents but relegated to a secondary status. The novel interrogates then current ideas about the supposed innateness of race and...

Este libro cuestiona las tesis más conocidas acerca de la poética garcilasista, al presentarla a la luz de sus complicidades con la estética fascista, tal y como fue elaborada por Ernesto Giménez Caballero en “Arte y Estado”. Después de estudiar la implantación de dicha estética en las páginas de “Escorial”, el trabajo analiza las polémicas que, a lo largo de la primera década de posguerra, contribuyeron a la recuperación de muchas de las estéticas anatematizadas por el falangismo: desde la romántica a la vanguardista.