Space, Drama, and Empire(English, Paperback, Lorenzo Javier)

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Space, Drama, and Empire(English, Paperback, Lorenzo Javier) is written by Lorenzo Javier and published by Bucknell University Press,U.S.. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 168448491X (ISBN 10) and 9781684484911 (ISBN 13).

Spanish poet, playwright, and novelist Felix Lope de Vega (1562-1635) was a key figure of Golden Age Spanish literature, second only in stature to Cervantes, and is considered the founder of Spain's classical theater. In this rich and informative study, Javier Lorenzo investigates the symbolic use of space in Lope's drama and its function as an ideological tool to promote an imagined Spanish national past. In specific plays, this book argues, historical landscapes and settings were used to foretell and legitimize the imperial present in Hapsburg Spain, allowing audiences to visualize and plot, as on a map, the country's expansionist trajectory throughout the centuries. By focusing on connections among space, drama, and empire, this book makes an important contribution to the study of literature and imperialism in early modern Spain and equally to our understanding of the role and political significance of spatiality in Siglo de Oro comedia.