El lado sombrío del imperio: representaciones teatrales de la melancolía hispana en el siglo XVII
This paper is part of the research project on melancholy and madness in the theater of the Spanish Golden Age, now in its final stage. Although several scholars have noted the distinctive mark of these diseases in seventeenth-century cultural texts, they have not considered them together -with some...
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I11-R87article-54962021-12-17T15:49:04Z The dark side of the empire: theatrical representations of Hispanic melancholy in the seventeenth century El lado sombrío del imperio: representaciones teatrales de la melancolía hispana en el siglo XVII Sosa, Marcela Beatriz representaciones teatrales melancolía española imperio siglo XVII theatrical representations Hispanic melancholy empire seventeenth century This paper is part of the research project on melancholy and madness in the theater of the Spanish Golden Age, now in its final stage. Although several scholars have noted the distinctive mark of these diseases in seventeenth-century cultural texts, they have not considered them together -with some exceptions- nor have they focused their attention on baroque theatrical productions, in which they figure largely. When investigating their relationship with the main dramatic conflicts of the Comedia Nueva, we observed that these systematically present representations co-occurred with different variables: love and desire, ambition for power and violence, honor (and the lack of it), expressed through devices of intense theatricality that ambiguously gave rise to distancing and identification in the audience. Thus, the dramatic texts selected show a correlation with a melancholy social imaginary shaped, to a large extent, by the failure of the imperial enterprise and the disenchantment of the world, which found a perfect resonating chamber in theatrical discourse. Esta comunicación se inscribe dentro de la investigación sobre melancolía y locura en el teatro del Siglo de Oro que está en su etapa final. Si bien diversos estudiosos han advertido la impronta de dichas afecciones en textos culturales del siglo XVII, no las han considerado en conjunto –salvo excepciones- ni han focalizado su atención en producciones teatrales barrocas, que son atravesadas significativamente por aquellas. Al indagarse qué relación guardaban con los principales conflictos dramáticos de la Comedia Nueva, observamos que la presencia sistemática de estas representaciones ocurría en conexión con diferentes variables: el amor y el deseo, la ambición de poder y la violencia, la honra (y su falta), expresados mediante dispositivos de intensa teatralidad que provocaban, ambiguamente, distanciamiento e identificación en el espectador. Así, los textos dramáticos seleccionados mostrarán su correlación con un imaginario social melancólico suscitado, en gran parte, por el fracaso de la empresa imperial y el desengaño del mundo, que hallaba en el discurso teatral su perfecta caja de resonancia. Asociación de Estudios Interdisciplinarios sobre Europa (ADEISE) 2021-12-17 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Artículo revisado por pares application/pdf https://revistas.uncu.edu.ar/ojs3/index.php/europa/article/view/5496 Revista EUROPA; Núm. 12 (2021); 43-66 1515-6133 spa https://revistas.uncu.edu.ar/ojs3/index.php/europa/article/view/5496/4174 |
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El lado sombrío del imperio: representaciones teatrales de la melancolía hispana en el siglo XVII |
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dark side of the empire: theatrical representations of hispanic melancholy in the seventeenth century |
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This paper is part of the research project on melancholy and madness in the theater of the Spanish Golden Age, now in its final stage. Although several scholars have noted the distinctive mark of these diseases in seventeenth-century cultural texts, they have not considered them together -with some exceptions- nor have they focused their attention on baroque theatrical productions, in which they figure largely. When investigating their relationship with the main dramatic conflicts of the Comedia Nueva, we observed that these systematically present representations co-occurred with different variables: love and desire, ambition for power and violence, honor (and the lack of it), expressed through devices of intense theatricality that ambiguously gave rise to distancing and identification in the audience. Thus, the dramatic texts selected show a correlation with a melancholy social imaginary shaped, to a large extent, by the failure of the imperial enterprise and the disenchantment of the world, which found a perfect resonating chamber in theatrical discourse. |
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