Calderón in the German Lands and the Low Countries
His Reception and Influence, 1654–1980

This book recounts the afterlife of the great Golden Age dramatist Pedro Calderón de la Barca in Dutch and German-speaking Europe.

Henry W. Sullivan (Author)

9780521121606, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 29 October 2009

540 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 0.3 cm, 0.79 kg

This book recounts the afterlife of the great Golden Age dramatist Pedro Calderón de la Barca in Dutch and German-speaking Europe. The high quality of the German critical and philosophical tradition has led to a far greater appreciation of Calderón outside than inside his native Spain, and it is in the German territories that the playwright's influence has been most remarkable and widespread. Professor Sullivan documents and analyses Calderón's reception and influence on the stage and on playwriting, criticism, philosophy and music in these territories. In addressing his book to students of both the German and the Spanish traditions Professor Sullivan has supplied the necessary background to both cultures and has rendered all quotations into English. The range of material will also make the book important for students of philosophy, comparative drama and German opera.

List of plates
Preface and acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The life and works of Don Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600–1681)
2. How did Calderón's plays get to Germany? The Netherlands, 1647–1767
3. The burghers applaud: Calderón in anonymity
4. A victim of neo-Classicism
5. The critical revolution in Germany
6. The Romantic apotheosis of Calderón
7. The German Idealist philosophers
8. Calderón on the German Romantic stage
9. Calderón and German music
10. The age of Positivism and the Wilhelmine Empire
11. From the Weimar Republic to the Third Reich
12. Calderón in Germany since 1945
13. General conclusion
Appendices
Periodical abbreviations
Notes
Select bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: plays & playwrights [DSG]