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Article: The Play of Power: Mythological Court Dramas of Calderon de la Barca.
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- Renaissance Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 22, 1994
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The appearance of Margaret Greer's comprehensive study of the (mostly) late mythological festival-plays of Calderon marks the moment when a book that one day had to be written finally found its author. These court dramas--some nineteen in number and, hence, approximately ten percent of Calderon's total output--are the last genre in the Calderonian canon to be accorded genuinely serious attention (seven are treated here). The critical reception history of these works prior to, say, the pioneering essay of W. G. Chapman in 1954 is literally a litany of misunderstanding. Since then, the perception of the court dramas as mere royal divertissement and insubstantial extravaganza ...
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