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    Audiences of Empire: Lope De Vega, the Spanish History Play, and Me
    Audiences of Empire: Lope De Vega, the Spanish History Play, and Me
    Audiences of Empire: Lope De Vega, the Spanish History Play, and Me
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    Audiences of Empire: Lope De Vega, the Spanish History Play, and Me

    By Elaine McDermott Bunn

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    LOPE DE VEGA (1562-1635), poet/playwright of unrivaled popularity during Spains Golden Age of literature (including Miguel de Cervantes and Caldern de la Barca), rescued theater from ineffective conventions and claimed authorship of some 1800 titles. Many of the almost 500 existing plays are stagings of pivotal events and protagonists from national history. Lope entertains his eager public with colorful stories of the passions, heroism and villainy of the high and mighty blending these with the virtues and vices of ordinary folk and stock characters. In the twilight of the once great empire, now powerless and bankrupt, Lope draws his audience into a reimagined past that is confirmed and redeemed by a prophecy of future greatness. With the history play Lope gives new meaning to the moniker often ascribed to him, Phoenix of Spain.

    In Audiences of Empire, author Elaine Bunn proposes a new subgenre, the populist national history play that is communal and deliberately expansive. She shows Lope, the frustrated historian, connecting king to commoner and putting myths, legends and miracles to fresh use.

    Finally, Audiences of Empire includes a personal reminiscence by the author about the challenges of the writing process and her experience as a feminist academic in a slowly transforming patriarchal university system. Her protracted research on Lopes early theater makes her aware finally of the significance of her own historical moment with surprising insights.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateMar 17, 2011
    ISBN9781450285155
    Audiences of Empire: Lope De Vega, the Spanish History Play, and Me
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    Elaine McDermott Bunn

    ELAINE BUNN is Professor Emerita of Spanish Language and Literature at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. She earned a PhD at the University of Pennsylvania. She taught at Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, Rutgers University, and Douglass College in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She currently resides in Highlands, New Jersey.

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