Description:
In Ambiguous Antidotes, Hilaire Kallendorf explores the receptions of Virtues in the realm of moral philosophy and the artistic production it influenced during the Spanish Gold Age.
Brief description:
Hilaire Kallendorf is a professor of Hispanic and religious studies at Texas A&M University.
Review Quotes:
"This ambitious volume is written with great verve and stands to open many doors for future comedia study."
--Shifra Armon, University of Florida, Bulletin des Commandants, 2019"The book confirms the great potential of Golden Age drama as a source of case studies. The commercial stage was a locus where popular demand intersected with the sort of normative discourse generated by the cultural, religious, and political elites: as Kallendorf points out, the theater can be viewed as an 'artificially constructed laboratory for the study of moral behaviour.'"
--José María Pérez Fernández, Universidad de Granada, Renaissance Quarterly, Summer 2020