This dissertation explores the influence of European and Mesoamerican traditions of urbanization on the plays of Juan Ruiz de Alarcon, a sixteen- seventeenth-century dramatist born in the Spanish Viceroyalty of New Spain. The objective of this dissertation is to study the analogy between urban designs and their representation in theatre from the Ancient Greece until the Golden Age Spanish Theatre. As we acknowledge the influence of the urban configuration on the mentality of that particular period, we also seek to explain how the surrounding reality becomes like an ideological postulate with the passing of time. By analysing and defining the cities from the Ancient Greece to the period known as the Baroque, we aim at defining the new form taken by their inherent spatial notions when they merge with those of the ancient historic capital of the Mexica empire, that is, Mexico-Tenochtitlan. As the two worlds were coming into contact, the changes as well as the exchange of cultural legacies and urban experiences endowed the author's town of birth with a new way of communicating, which was at the same time both Spanish and non-Spanish. This allowed the author to write plots where the urban setting would not determine all the characters' actions and reactions, as was the case with the Golden Age dramatists in Spain.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.84205 |
| Date | January 2003 |
| Creators | Vargas, Javier |
| Contributors | Perez-Magallon, Jesus (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | sp |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Doctor of Philosophy (Department of Hispanic Studies.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001984873, proquestno: AAINQ88594, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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