Divination on stage : Prophetic body signs in early modern theatre in Spain and Europe

• Tác giả: Folke Gernert
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-3110695748
• ISBN-13: 978-3110695755
• ISBN-13: 978-3110734805
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 440 Romance languages French
• Thông tin xuất bản: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2021
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (252 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 208453
• Chủ đề: 1. Literary studies: plays & playwrights; 2. Literature: history & criticism

Tóm tắt

Magicians, necromancers and astrologers are assiduous characters in the European golden age theatre. This book deals with dramatic characters who act as physiognomists or palm readers in the fictional world and analyses the fictionalisation of physiognomic lore as a practice of divination in early modern Romance theatre from Pietro Aretino and Giordano Bruno to Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca and Thomas Corneille.