A Twenty-First Century Auto Sacramental?: Thomas Hürlimann’s Das Einsiedler Welttheater (2007) and Calderón’s El gran teatro del mundo

Stephen Boyd

A Twenty-First Century Auto Sacramental?: Thomas Hürlimann’s Das Einsiedler Welttheater (2007) and Calderón’s El gran teatro del mundo

Stephen Boyd

School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures

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Abstract

The essay explores the relationship between Calderón de la Barca's auto sacramental, El gran teatro del mundo (c.1636) and a contemporary rewriting of it, Das Einsiedler Welttheater (2007), by the Swiss novelist and dramatist, Thomas Hürlimann (b. 1950). The relationship between in two plays is considered in the contexts of the German Romantic re-discovery of Calderón and of the Einsiedeln theatre festival tradition. Although Hürlimann's play contrasts significantly with its Spanish source, it is argued that, in many respects, he may be seen to be, paradoxically, faithful to Calderón.

Original language	English (Ireland)
Title of host publication	Connecting Past and Present: Exploring the Influence of the Spanish Golden Age in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Editors	Aaron M. Kahn
Place of Publication	Cambridge
Publisher	Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Pages	159-185
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4438-7616-2
Publication status	Published - 2015

Keywords

Spain
Literature
Golden Age

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A Twenty-First Century Auto Sacramental?: Thomas Hürlimann’s Das Einsiedler Welttheater (2007) and Calderón’s El gran teatro del mundo. / Boyd, Stephen.
Connecting Past and Present: Exploring the Influence of the Spanish Golden Age in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. ed. / Aaron M. Kahn. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. p. 159-185.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedings › Chapter › peer-review

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A Twenty-First Century Auto Sacramental?: Thomas Hürlimann’s Das Einsiedler Welttheater (2007) and Calderón’s El gran teatro del mundo

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