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Sevilla como espacio dramático en la comedia del Siglo de Oro

García-Quismondo García, Judith

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2005, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Spanish and Portuguese.
Countless studies about the interplay between the city and the private spheres of its citizens have been written and discussed, all of them centered on the city of Madrid. As far as Sevilla is concerned, only Héctor Brioso Santos has examined the city in depth during the Golden Age period, centering his approach on narrative fiction and considering the city as a locus for turmoil. My study, however, is focused on the public sphere of Seville in the Spanish Golden Age, and its cultural representation in the existing dramatic corpus. Through literary, social and urbanistic depictions I confront the portrayal of Seville as a magnificent and thriving commercial emporium within the pages of the Spanish comedia, in contrast to the portrait of crime and vice permeating the Golden Age narrative. In fact, Seville in the theater reveals a compendium of topics regarding the city worthy of examination and a less reductionist approach. As the major Spanish trading port, it soon became a shelter for those in search of a better fortune. The competitive struggles derived from an overcrowded city illustrated, and accounted for, the pages of countless picaresque narrations. Despite the ever-present connection between Seville and past glories and splendor in most of Golden Age plays, the present perception of the city is ultimately linked to the narrative genre. Although the dramatic corpus on Seville is fairly broad, the limited reception of the plays may account for the ephemeral association of Seville and wealth. Most of the plays considered in my study have not been published and presumably were on stage only briefly. I have limited my study to sixteen comedies, which I have centered on four major themes: economic and commercial life of Seville; historic and legendary origins of Seville; Seville as a shelter or door to other spheres; and Seville as a locus of crime. All of them justify a more complete and precise analysis of the role of Seville in the redefinition of national cultural and aesthetical values.
Donald Larson (Advisor)
341 p.

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  • García-Quismondo García, J. (2005). Sevilla como espacio dramático en la comedia del Siglo de Oro [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1127327301

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • García-Quismondo García, Judith. Sevilla como espacio dramático en la comedia del Siglo de Oro. 2005. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1127327301.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • García-Quismondo García, Judith. "Sevilla como espacio dramático en la comedia del Siglo de Oro." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1127327301

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)