Maria Alicia Amadei Pulice Libros

Amadei-Pulice examines the conflict between Lopes dramatic formula (comedia) and the new polytechnic formula that in the hands of Calderon merged dramatic poetry with visual and auditory effects (comedia de teatro). The author places the Spanish baroque theater within the wider context of a revolution in the theory of representation, signs, and meanings that took

Establishing the notion of reasonable foolishness and foolish reason as a generic principle of the old French farce, Boucqueys study examines the interdependencies among four key mimetic phenomena: the demented universe of the Feast of Fools festival, the genre of the farce, Bruegels representation of the world, and the euphoric comedies of triumphant madness created