Beware the Poetry – Political Satire and the Emergence of the Public Sphere in …

Beware the PoetryPolitical Satire and the Emergence of a Public Sphere in Madrid, 15951643\nAuthor(s): Javier Castro-Ibaseta\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Pennsylvania State University Press, United States\nImprint: Pennsylvania State University Press\nISBN-13: 9780271099354, 978-0271099354\nSynopsis\nIn the early seventeenth century, Spanish rulers were confronted by an avalanche of political satires. Beware the Poetry shows how these poetic libels helped articulate an early form of the public sphere, profoundly transforming political culture.\n\nExploring a rich trove of mostly anonymous satirical works, together with newsletters, sermons, and plays, Javier Castro-Ibaseta reconstructs the experiences of Madrilenians during the reigns of Philip III and Philip IV. Castro-Ibaseta proposes an original theory of political publics that corrects approaches that assume early modern Spains public sphere mirrored the politics of England or France. Instead, he shows that in Spain publicness w.