{"product_id":"wild-theater-staging-the-margins-of-baroque-ideology-in-the-spanish-comedia-9780826507532","title":"Wild Theater: Staging the Margins of Baroque Ideology in the Spanish Comedia","description":"In \u003ci\u003eWild Theater\u003c\/i\u003e, Harrison Meadows critically examines the genealogy of one of world literature's most well-known figures: the \"Wildman.\" From its earliest manifestations in works such as \u003ci\u003eThe Epic of Gilgamesh\u003c\/i\u003e to more recent films like \u003ci\u003eThe Green Knight\u003c\/i\u003e, the transhistorical figure of the Wildman has fascinated generations of scholars and the broader public for centuries. Despite this widespread interest, the place of the Wildman--and ideas of wildness more generally--have been underexplored in scholarship on the Spanish Baroque period. \u003ci\u003eWild Theater\u003c\/i\u003e addresses this lacuna in scholarship by exploring the ideas of wildness in the Spanish comedia, a popular Spanish Golden Age theater genre that combined elements of tragedy and comedy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In five compelling chapters, Meadows argues that a major shift occurred during the Baroque period, whereby the largely positive quality of previous iterations in the genealogy of wildness take on a negative character in the cultural ethos--and that this fundamental shift was representative of the influence of Spanish colonialism on racial thinking and a larger set of changes in how early modern people viewed gender and class. In this way, the book identifies the wild figure's dramatic roots in the carnivalesque as an indispensable point of departure to plot the trajectory of wild representation in the theater of the Hispanic Baroque. From this guiding premise, Meadows traces the carryovers, transformations, and negations of the carnivalesque into early modern dramaturgy, specifically the Spanish comedia, which are emblematic of the poetic and ideological features of the emerging commercial theater in Iberia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHarrison Meadows\u003c\/b\u003e is an assistant professor of Spanish at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vanderbilt University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51500938002706,"sku":"9780826507532","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_062a6c43-c834-4e91-875d-447c6508d1b1.jpg?v=1753205129","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/wild-theater-staging-the-margins-of-baroque-ideology-in-the-spanish-comedia-9780826507532","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}