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BETWEEN HISTORY AND FICTION - TRACY CROWE MOREY...

This study explores a number of early modern comedias that deal with historical siege or
military episodes in the history of the Iberian peoples. Cervantes's La Numancia  Lope de
Vega's El asalto de Mastrique and his lesser known La nueva victoria de don Gonzalo de Córdoba
Calderón de la Barca's El sitio de Bredá  and Vélez de Guevara's El Hércules de Ocaña are key
texts examined here. Taking the distinction between history and fiction in Neo-Aristotelian
literary theory as a point of departure  this book considers the intellectual and historical
conditions that affect the ways in which early modern dramatists interpret historical events
according to their own literary and ideological purposes. The interplay of history and fiction
demonstrates uses and discontents of legitimizing fiction in the early modern period. Parallel
themes of epic and siege intermingled with romance and carnivalesque humour  provide
alternative perspectives to early modern representations of empire and war on the Spanish
stage.

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