The discourse of courtly love in seventeenth-century Spanish theater

204 Pages·2009·0.664 MB·English

by  Bayliss, Robert Elliott

The Discourse of Courtly Love
in Seventeenth-Century
Spanish Theater

The Discourse of Courtly Love
in Seventeenth-Century
Spanish Theater
Robert Bayliss
Lewisburg
Bucknell University Press
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Bayliss, Robert.
The discourse of courtly love in seventeenth-century Spanish theater /
Robert Bayliss.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8387-5714-7 (alk. paper)
1. Spanish drama—Classical period, 1500–1700——History and criticism.
2. Courtly love in literature. I. Title.
PQ6105.B33 2008
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Contents
Acknowledgments 7
Introduction: Courtly Love and the Comediaas Discourse 11
1. The Legacy of Troubadour Self-Absorption 25
2. Duty and Desire: The Discourses of Courtly Love,
Chivalry, and Honor 67
3. Discursive Interplay: The Ethics of Courtly Love,
Decorum, and Interpretation 104
Conclusion: Furthering the Tenso 162
Notes 169
Bibliography 185
Index 196
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Acknowledgments
T
HEPUBLICATIONOFTHISBOOKWASMADEPOSSIBLEBYTHESUPPORT
and guidance of far too many individuals to enumerate here, but
there are several whose involvement and intervention in the project
is too important to escape mention. As a longtime mentor and friend,
James McGregor at the University of Georgia should be thanked for
his encouragement and enthusiasm. As my graduate advisor and
mentor, Catherine Larson is responsible for guiding this project from
its earliest stages. Among her colleagues at Indiana University to whom
I owe my sincere gratitude are Steven Wagschal, Giancarlo Maiorino,
and Rosemarie McGerr. Juan Carlos Conde must also be thanked for
his vision and encouragement, as well as Charles Ganelin at Miami
University for his support and enthusiasm for my work. Finally, with-
out the support of my colleagues at the Department of Spanish and
Portuguese at the University of Kansas, and in particular of my fac-
ulty mentor Vicky Unruh, completing this project would simply not
have been possible.
I owe thanks to the University of Kansas for their institutional sup-
port as I redacted and revised this book, both for the funding I received
through the New Faculty General Research Fund and the Jessie Marie
Senor Cramer & Ann Cramer Root Faculty Award, and for the techni-
cal support I received from the Hall Center for the Humanities.
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The Discourse of Courtly Love
in Seventeenth-Century
Spanish Theater