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In sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain, debating the acceptability of games and recreation was serious business. With Lector Ludens, Michael Scham uses Cervantes's Don Quijote and Novelas ejemplares as the basis for a wide-ranging exploration of early modern Spanish views on recreations ranging from cards and dice to hunting, attending the theater, and reading fiction.
Shifting fluidly between modern theories of play, little-known Spanish treatises on leisure and games, and the evidence in Cervantes's own works, Scham illuminates Cervantes's intense fascination with games, play, and leisure, as well as the tensions in early modern Spain between the stern moralizing of the Counter-Reformation and the playfulness of Renaissance humanism.
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. Leisure and Recreation in Early Modern Spain
Theoretical Contexts
Prerational and Rational Play in the Epic, the Picaresque, and the Quixotic
The Space and Function of Eutrapelia
CristÓbal MÉndez, Rodrigo Caro, Fray Alonso Remon: Therapeutic Exercise
Human Divinity and Depravity: Vives, Erasmus, Montaigne
Play types in Golden Age Spain
Chess
Games of Chance
Physical activity and competition
Mimesis
Ilinx
Regulating play in the Indias
2. Solitary, Collaborative and Complicit Play in Don Quijote
Cervantes and the Ambivalent Freedom of Play
Players and Games in Don Quijote
Play and Laughter in Don Quijote
Laughing At, Laughing With
Comic Doubt and Delusion in Don Quijote
Ludic Scepticism in Don Quijote II
3. The Novelas ejemplares: Ocio, Exemplarity, and Community
Agonistic and Restrictive Play in El licenciado Vidriera
The Agonistic Intellect: Cruel Comedy and Vidriera's Humourless Vision
The Picaresque and Play in El coloquio de los perros
Play and the Liminal Underworld Experience
Dialogue and the Digressive Quest for Meaning in El coloquio de los perros
Play and the Exemplarity of Process
Picaresque Freedom and Festive Play
The Festive Mode of the Picaresque
Monipodio's Criminal and Ludic Community in Rinconete y Cortadillo
Distance, Morality, and the Allure of the Aesthetic Experience
Generic Interplay in La ilustre fregona
Interrogation and Validation of the Fictional World
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
