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...
| Otros títulos: | Special Issue: New Perspectives on Biblical Drama; Guest Editors: Sarah Fengler and Dinah Wouters |
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| Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Artículo |
| Lenguaje: | Español |
| Verificar disponibilidad: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Publicado: |
2024
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| En: |
Journal of the bible and its reception
Año: 2024, Volumen: 11, Número: 2, Páginas: 227-244 |
| (Cadenas de) Palabra clave estándar: | B
Bibel
/ Historia
/ Spanien
/ Edad Moderna
/ Vega, Lope de 1562-1635
/ Vega, Lope de 1562-1635, La hermosa Ester
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| Clasificaciones IxTheo: | CD Cristianismo ; Cultura HA Biblia KAH Edad Moderna KBH Península ibérica |
| Otras palabras clave: | B
aesthetic-historical culture
B Lope de Vega B Early Modern Spain B history and the bible B La hermosa Ester B religious comedias |
| Acceso en línea: |
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Sumario: | 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 |
| Obras secundarias: | Enthalten in: Journal of the bible and its reception
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/jbr-2023-0013 |