Escuela de Calderon Estudio - Ann L. Mackenzie - Hardcover

This critical evaluation in Spanish of the dramatic art and ideology of the School of Calderon is the product of much primary research into early manuscripts and editions of plays preserved in Spanish libraries. The book includes discussions of ideological preoccupations, artistic attitudes and theatrical circumstances during the Baroque Age, as well as of the main dramatic genres practised by Calderon and his school. The principal causes of the decline in quality of plays and playwrights which characterized the final decades of the Golden Age (Siglo de Oro) of Spanish literature are also discussed. Among key techniques and preferences of Calderon and his imitators studied are their creative exploitation of earlier plays, and their composing of dramas in collaborationMackenzie, Ann L. is the author of 'Escuela de Calderon Estudio - Ann L. Mackenzie - Hardcover' with ISBN 9780853233473 and ISBN 0853233470.