Description
Book SynopsisThis study outlines and reiterates the relationship of theatre to casuistry, the Jesuit contributions to Spanish literary theory and practice, and the importance of casuistry for the study of early modern subjectivity.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments *Introduction: The Rise of Casuistry in Spain, the Flowering of Jesuit School Drama, and the Jesuit Education of Spanish Playwrights Renaissance European Casuistry and Its Manifestations in Spain Jesuit School Drama Mainstream Dramatists Educated by Jesuits Casuistry in Action on the Jesuit School Stage The Vocabulary of Casuistry Casos and Case Morality Hypothetical Scenarios 'To Flee the Occasion of Sin' Competing Obligations 'Que he de hacer?' / 'What should I o?' Questions of Strategy Moral Dilemmas and Conflicting Duties Hierarchies of Virtue and Vice Comedias and Confessional Manuals The Double Bind The Casuistical Dramatic Monologue and Tragedy Asking for Advice: Class, Gender, and the Supernatural Rulers and Subjects, Masters and Servants Wave Imagery, Blindness, and Labyrinths Soliloquies and Supernatural Entities The Gendering of Casuistry Are Men or Women More Casuistical? Constructions of Conscience The Conscience, in Action and Acted Upon Descriptions of Clear and Troubled Consciences Conscience's Auxiliaries Synonyms and Antonyms for Conscience 'Symptoms' or Physical Manifestations of Conscience Casuistry and Theory Genealogies of Conscience The Relationship of Theatre to Casuistry The Jesuit Contribution to Spanish Literary Theory and Practice Poetics of the Comedia in Early Modern Spain Comedia or Quaestio? Dilatio, Deferral, and Differance 'The Soul of Spain' Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
