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'Lector Ludens'

Name: 'Lector Ludens'
Brand: University Of Toronto Press
SKU: 04797728
Price: 73.59 EUR
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Author: Michael Scham
ISBN: 9781442648647

The Representation of Games & Play in Cervantes

Michael Scham

Language

English

Book Hardback

Libristo code: 04797728

Publishers University Of Toronto Press, September 2014

In sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain, debating the acceptability of games and recreation was... Full description

Libristo code: 04797728

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In sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain, debating the acceptability of games and recreation was serious business. With Lector Ludens, Michael Scham uses Cervantes's Don Quijote and Novelas ejemplares as the basis for a wide-ranging exploration of early modern Spanish views on recreations ranging from cards and dice to hunting, attending the theater, and reading fiction. Shifting fluidly between modern theories of play, little-known Spanish treatises on leisure and games, and the evidence in Cervantes's own works, Scham illuminates Cervantes's intense fascination with games, play, and leisure, as well as the tensions in early modern Spain between the stern moralizing of the Counter-Reformation and the playfulness of Renaissance humanism.