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A Bicephalic Melancholiac: Acting a Royal Pathology in Spanish Golden Age Drama
- Author(s):
- Eduardo Paredes Ocampo (see profile)
- Date:
- 2022
- Group(s):
- Early Modern Academies of the World, Early Modern Theater, Renaissance / Early Modern Studies, Spanish Golden Age Literature
- Subject(s):
- Spanish drama, Seventeenth century, Vega, Lope de, 1562-1635, Art, Baroque, Theater, Diseases, Performance art--Study and teaching
- Item Type:
- Book chapter
- Tag(s):
- 17th-century Spanish theater, Lope de Vega, Baroque theatre, Disease, Performance studies
- Permanent URL:
- https://doi.org/10.17613/0nm3-4415
- Abstract:
- This study presents a reconstruction of the performance of the melancholic character in Golden Age theater. It argues that critics have overlooked the way this character type was acted on the original stage. Using Lope’s El Príncipe melancólico [The Melancholic Prince] as a case-study to speculate on the actor’s paralinguistic gestures and movements, information that is extracted from the text, the character’s symptoms can be divided into two categories: fiery melancholia and saddened melancholia. These are compared with two pseudo-medical treaties and Carducho’s Diálogos, as well as three illustrative paintings. The conclusion correlates the dramatic features of the two types of melancholia with two widely-known cases of this pathology in the political panorama of Lope’s time.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 1 year ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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