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The plays of Ruiz de Alarc?n, a significant dramatist in the Spanish Golden Age, show in many of their plots a preoccupation with deception, which Whicker believes reflects Alarc?n's fundamental concern about truth-telling in literature. His study of Alarc?n's comedias stresses the seriousness and moral orthodoxy of the playwright and his concern with how simulation and dissimulation can be viewed both positively and negatively in theatre as well as in life. In support of his argument for the seriousness of Alarc?n's theatre - his challenge to his audience to think hard and clear about his play, particularly over the issue of illusion, deception and dissimulation - Whicker focuses on the moral arguments perceived in Alarc?n's theatre, and their reference to serious literary-moral issues current in the Golden Age; he tests the relevance of his argument against contemporary circumstances, the ethics of privanza in particular. JULES WHICKER lectures in the department of Hispanic studies, University of Birmingham. El teatro de Ruiz de Alarc?n, dramatugo important?simo del Siglo de Oro, demuestra en la elaboraci?n de la trama una preocupaci?n por el enga?o y, e

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Author

Jules Whicker

Publisher

Boydell and Brewer Limited

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9781855660939

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Romance