Spanish and English Literature of the 16th and 17th Centuries Wilson Paperback

Spanish and English Literature of the 16th and 17th CenturiesStudies in Discretion, Illusion and Mutability\nAuthor(s): Edward M. Wilson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521135672, 978-0521135672\nSynopsis\nEdward M. Wilson's reputation as a scholar of Caldern, and of classical Spanish literature in general, is almost unrivalled. He was also an expert in English works of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and in the popular literature of both languages. These essays, written at various stages of Wilson's career, reflect his scholarship in all these fields. They also reveal the recurrent themes which Wilson found in the literature of this period: discretion and the dangers of rashness, and desengao, the need to rid oneself of worldly illusions. Eight of the fourteen articles concentrate on different aspects of Caldern's work, revealing the playwright's consistency of outlook. The essays on.