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Article: New Historicism and the Comedia: Poetics, Politics and Praxis.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- October 1, 1999
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New Historicism and the Comedia: Poetics, Politics and Praxis. Ed. by JOSE A. MADRIGAL. Boulder, CO: Society of Spanish and Spanish-American Studies. 1997. 236 pp. $30.
This collection of eleven essays offers a series of interesting reflections both on the major playwrights of the Golden Age and on a large number of contemporary Spanish and Mexican dramatists. By combining some of the theoretical approaches favoured by New Historicism with close attention to the cultural framework of the period, it aims at presenting 'alternatives to current interpretations of Golden Age drama' (p. 13). Although the texts cover an array of playwrights and a broad range of subgenres ...