Ruins of Empire or Tears of Joy?: An Intersection of History and the Bible in Lope de Vega’s Religious Comedias
This article studies a way in which Lope de Vega used biblical theatre as a vehicle for historiographical interpretation. The article does so by situating elements from a number of Lope’s religious comedias in the context of what has recently been described as Golden Age Spain’s "aesthetic-hist...
| Subtitles: | Special Issue: New Perspectives on Biblical Drama; Guest Editors: Sarah Fengler and Dinah Wouters |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | Spanish |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Published: |
2024
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| In: |
Journal of the bible and its reception
Year: 2024, Volume: 11, Issue: 2, Pages: 227-244 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible
/ History
/ Spain
/ Modern age
/ Vega, Lope de 1562-1635
/ Vega, Lope de 1562-1635, La hermosa Ester
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| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture HA Bible KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBH Iberian Peninsula |
| Further subjects: | B
aesthetic-historical culture
B Lope de Vega B Early Modern Spain B history and the bible B La hermosa Ester B religious comedias |
| Online Access: |
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| Summary: | This article studies a way in which Lope de Vega used biblical theatre as a vehicle for historiographical interpretation. The article does so by situating elements from a number of Lope’s religious comedias in the context of what has recently been described as Golden Age Spain’s "aesthetic-historical culture." The study begins with an analysis of intersections of history and the Bible in Lope’s La hermosa Ester . The second half comprises a reconstruction of the role of the Bible in Lope’s poetics. Via this two-pronged strategy, the article makes a case for seeing a feature of Lope’s biblical comedias as part of said aesthetic-historical culture of early modern Spain and proposes a way to understand the historiographical profile of Lope’s biblical drama. This leads to the claim that Lope’s biblical drama effectively contributed to the attribution of a new generic mixture to understandings and interpretations of the course of history itself. This interpretation invites a highly open-ended approach to the end of time between ruin and redemption. |
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| ISSN: | 2329-4434 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of the bible and its reception
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/jbr-2023-0013 |