{"product_id":"the-limits-of-illusion-a-critical-study-of-calderon-hardback-9780521262811","title":"The Limits of Illusion: A Critical Study of Calderón (Hardback) 9780521262811","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Limits of Illusion: A Critical Study of Calderón\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis is the first thorough study of Calderón in comparison with other important dramatists of the period.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAnthony J. Cascardi (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521262811, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 13 September 1984\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e200 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.424 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis is the first thorough study of Calderón 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 Calderón's paradoxical engagement with illusion in its philosophical guise as scepticism. He shows on the one hand Calderón's moral will to reject illusion and on the other his theatrical need to embrace it. Cascardi discusses plays from every period to show how in Calderón's best work illusion is not rejected; instead, scepticism is absorbed. Calderón is placed in and defined against the philosophical line of Vives, Descartes, and Spinoza. Of central importance to this argument is Calderón's idea of theatre and the various transformations of that idea. This emphasis will give the book an additional interest to students, readers in philosophy and comparative literature.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Note on texts and notes\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. La vida es sueno: Calderón's idea of a theatre\u003cbr\u003e 2. La dama duende\u003cbr\u003e 3. Calderón and Tirso: El galán fantasma\u003cbr\u003e 4. El secreto a voces: language and social illusion\u003cbr\u003e 5. Toward tragedy\u003cbr\u003e 6. El médico de su honra\u003cbr\u003e 7. Herod and Hercules: theatrical space and the body\u003cbr\u003e 8. El mágico prodigioso and the theatre of alchemy\u003cbr\u003e 9. The illusions of history\u003cbr\u003e 10. Authority and illusion: En la vida todo es verdad y too mentira\u003cbr\u003e 11. The use of myth: Eco y Narciso\u003cbr\u003e 12. Prometheus and the theatre of the mind\u003cbr\u003e 13. Calderón's last play: the comedia as technology and romance\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46006961078552,"sku":"9780521262811","price":73.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521262811i_7c3442cb-8aff-4b1a-96d0-8377a69bbe79.jpg?v=1691374128","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-limits-of-illusion-a-critical-study-of-calderon-hardback-9780521262811","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}