Irony as Structure in the Drama

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image sizeBSS Subject Index: COMPARISONS IN LITERATURE & CULTUREDRAMA/THEATREIRONYSHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM (1564–1616)SPAIN — LITERATURE — GOLDEN AGE/16th–17th CENTURIES — DRAMA/THEATRE & PERFORMANCE-HISTORYSPAIN — LITERATURE — GOLDEN AGE/16th–17th CENTURIES — GENERALSTRUCTURE [AS LITERARY/CULTURAL TECHNIQUE]/ STRUCTURALISMVEGA, LOPE DE (1562–1635) - PLAYS Notes 1. In preserving the form of the original spoken address, it has not seemed appropriate to add a scholarly apparatus of notes and references. However, connoisseurs of irony will recognize my indebtedness to C. D. Muecke, Irony (London: Methuen, 1970) and Bert O. States, Irony and Drama. A Poetics (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press, 1970). There is a recent bibliography of writings on irony in Wayne C. Booth, A Rhetoric of Irony (Chicago: Chicago U.P., 1974). I also owe much of my thinking on theatre to Susanne K. Langer, Feeling and Form (New York: Scribner's, 1953), and the books by J. L. Styan. 2. Alonso López Pinciano, Philosophia antigua poética, epístola 6. 3. The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, ed. Alex Preminger (Princeton: Princeton U.P., 1974), art. ‘Irony’. 4. ‘Four Master Tropes’, in A Grammar of Motives, Appendix D. 5. These ideas and their interrelations are expounded in many studies of the history of culture. Two notable examples, in their very different modes, are Hardin Craig, The Enchanted Glass: The Elizabethan Mind in Literature (New York: Oxford U.P., 1936), and Michel Foucault, Les Mots et les Choses (Paris: Gallimard, 1966): English trans. The Order of Things (New York: Random House, 1971). See especially section 2.