Antonio Mira de Amescua’s two-part Próspera fortuna and Adversa fortuna de don Álvaro de Luna chronicles the rise and fall of Spain’s most iconic privado , Álvaro de Luna. Suspected by medieval chroniclers of controlling Juan II with magic, Luna’s appearance on stage speaks to growing concerns in seventeenth-century Spain over the king’s ability to resist manipulation by powerful courtiers. Rather than using the plays as political commentary, however, Mira frames the institution of privanza within contemporary debates regarding free will, and, in doing so, offers a dramatic rendering of the nature of human autonomy and spiritual bondage.
America desencuadernada en Lope de Vega:Texto y escritura en El nuevo mundo descubierto por Cristobal Colon
CARL AUSTIN WISE
College o f Charleston
ResumenEn El nuevo mundo descubierto por Cristobal Colon de Lope de Vega, el universo parece ser encuadernado como si fuera un libro de papel y tinta. Los reyes europeos definen la Tierra empleando las paginas de Tolomeo, y la tripulacion que navega con Colon en su viaje de 1492 se concibe como formada por personajes de una cronica de Quinto Curcio sobre Alejandro Magno. Sin embargo, la realidad como texto no sobrevive ante el descubrimiento de las Americas cuando el Colon de Lope de Vega trata de exponer un nuevo mundo que, literalmente, existe fuera de las paginas de todo conocimiento europeo. Sin referenda textual alguna con la que los espanoles pudieran interpretar el descubrimiento, Lope revela serias dudas con los sistemas de representation europeos e insinua que America es un concepto en proceso de concebirse que se resiste a la description verosfmil. Sin embargo, el proyecto impe rial finalmente tiene exito cuando Espana rechaza los antiguos sistemas de cono cimiento a favor de una vision divina basada en la fe y el milagro.
AbstractIn Lope de Vega's El nuevo mundo por Cristobal Colon, the universe seems bound together in paper and ink as if it were a book. The European kings describe the world by citing pages from Ptolemy, and Christopher Columbus's crew envisages itself as characters in Quintus Curtius's chronicle of Alexander the Great. However, conceiving of reality as text becomes problematic as Lope's Columbus exposes a new world that exists, quite literally, outside the pages of all European knowledge. Without any textual references with which the Spanish explorers can interpret the discovery, Lope reveals flaws in the European systems of representation and suggests that America is a concept that resists description. Nevertheless, the impe rial project is finally successful when Spain abandons its textual system of knowl edge in favour of a divine vision based on faith.En El nuevo mundo descubierto por Cristobal Colon, la reina Isabel afirma que el descu brim iento acaecido en 1492 es 'la mayor novedad / que ha visto el siglo presente' (Vega Carpio 2001: 2818-2819. La expansion espanola hacia nuevos territorios en las Americas ciertam ente desempeno un papel im portante en la identidad BHS 92.2 (2015)
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