'Lector Ludens'
Michael Scham · 2014
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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{u2019}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{u2019}s own works, Scham illuminates Cervantes{u2019}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. -- From publisher's website.
Book details
- Year
- 2014
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Editions
- 2
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN
- 9781442648647
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