Pedro Calderón de la Barca and the World Theatre in Early Modern Europe The Theatrum Mundi of Celebration

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English | ISBN: 1501527177 | 2023 | 254 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Rasmus Vangshardt offers an original interpretation of one of the most famous images of literary history, the theatrum mundi. By applying methods of comparative literature, hispanic studies, and theology, he reconsiders the world theatre's historical peak in early modern Europe in general and the Spanish Golden Age in particular.

The author presents a new close reading of Pedro Calderón's El gran teatro del mundo (c. 1633-36) and outlines the historical and systematic framework for a theatrum mundi of celebration. This concept entails using art to justify human existence in the face of changing conceptions of the cosmos: an early modern aesthetic theodicy and a justification of the world in that liminal space between drama and ritual.
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