Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Note on texts and notes
- Introduction
- 1 La vida es sueño: Calderón's idea of a theatre
- 2 La dama duende
- 3 Calderón and Tirso: El galán fantasma
- 4 El secreto a voces: language and social illusion
- 5 Toward tragedy
- 6 El médico de su honra
- 7 Herod and Hercules: theatrical space and the body
- 8 El mágico prodigioso and the theatre of alchemy
- 9 The illusions of history
- 10 Authority and illusion: En la vida todo es verdad y todo mentira
- 11 The use of myth: Eco y Narciso
- 12 Prometheus and the theatre of the mind
- 13 Calderón's last play: the comedia as technology and romance
- Notes
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Note on texts and notes
- Introduction
- 1 La vida es sueño: Calderón's idea of a theatre
- 2 La dama duende
- 3 Calderón and Tirso: El galán fantasma
- 4 El secreto a voces: language and social illusion
- 5 Toward tragedy
- 6 El médico de su honra
- 7 Herod and Hercules: theatrical space and the body
- 8 El mágico prodigioso and the theatre of alchemy
- 9 The illusions of history
- 10 Authority and illusion: En la vida todo es verdad y todo mentira
- 11 The use of myth: Eco y Narciso
- 12 Prometheus and the theatre of the mind
- 13 Calderón's last play: the comedia as technology and romance
- Notes
- Index
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- The Limits of Illusion: A Critical Study of Calderón , pp. 177 - 181Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1984