Kallendorf, Hilaire
Conscience on Stage

The 'Comedia' as Casuistry in Early Modern Spain.

Conscience on Stage is a study of casuistry or case morality as the foundation for a poetics of seventeenth-century Spanish 'comedias'. Hilaire Kallendorf examines the Jesuit upbringing and casuistical education of major playwrights of the Spanish Golden Age, many of whom were also priests, and introduces the vocabulary of casuistry, as expressed in both confessors' manuals and in stage plays. Engaging issues of class, gender, and age to explore scenes of advice-giving and receiving, she demonstrates how the culture-specific construct of 'conscience' in early modern Spain can be recovered by means of a Foucauldian genealogy, which enlists the skills of philology at the service of a larger vision of the history of ideas. 299 Seiten, gebunden (University of Toronto Romance Series/University of Toronto Press 2007) textsauberes Exemplar mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren/minor traces of use