Conscience on stage

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"It is no accident that some variation of the question 'What should I do?' appears in over three-quarters of the comedic plays of the Spanish Golden Age. Casuistical dialogue was a concern, even an obsession, of Spanish playwrights during the seventeenth century, many of whom were educated by Jesuit casuists. Conscience on Stage is a study of casuistry or case morality as the foundation for a poetics of seventeenth-century Spanish comedias." "Hilaire Kallendorf examines the Jesuit upbringing and casuistical education of major playwrights of the Spanish Golden Age, many of whom were also priests, and introduces the vocabulary of casuistry, as expressed in both confessors' manuals and in stage plays."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Casuistry,  Casuistry in literature,  Catholic Church,  Confession (Liturgy),  Confession in literature,  Conscience in literature,  History,  History and criticism,  Spanish drama,  Spanish drama (Comedy),  Christianity in literature,  Comédie espagnole,  Histoire et critique,  Théâtre espagnol,  Casuistique dans la littérature,  Casuistique,  Conscience (Morale) dans la littérature,  Confession dans la littérature,  Confession,  Liturgie,  Église catholique,  Histoire,  Spanish drama, history and criticism

Times: 17th century,  Classical period, 1500-1700