The Limits of Illusion: A Critical Study of Calderón

by Anthony J. Cascardi

Book Overview

This is the first thorough study of Calder n 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 Calder n's paradoxical engagement with illusion in its philosophical guise as scepticism. He shows on the one hand Calder n's moral will to reject illusion and on the other his theatrical need to embrace it. Cascardi...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521022770
• ISBN13: 9780521022774
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"