Refiguring the Hero: From Peasant to Noble in Lope de Vega and Calderón

by Dian Fox

Book Overview

Refiguring the Hero reassesses the social significance of several of the most widely read plays of Spain's Golden Age in light of then-contempory ideas about heroism.

The Spanish dramatists Lope de Vega and Pedro Calder n de la Barca, near contemporaries of Shakespeare, are hailed by Hispanists as democrats at heart for making heroes, in both the literary and the positive moral sense, of peasants. Spanish drama is alleged to be the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271026332
• ISBN13: 9780271026336
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"