{"product_id":"lope-de-vegas-los-espazoles-a-robert-lauer-9780820428246","title":"Lope de Vega's «Los Españoles En Flandes»: A Critical Edition","description":"This first critical edition of Lope de Vega's obscure historical play based on the Spanish victory at Gembloux on January 30, 1578 challenges all previous literary assessments of \u003ci\u003eLos españoles en Flandes (The Spaniards in Flanders)\u003c\/i\u003e as a meaningless dramatic product. While Lope strictly adhered to Alonso Vasquez's factual account for the historical thread, the \u003ci\u003e'Phoenix'\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates his creative genius in the use of the Gypsy language (\u003ci\u003egermanesca\u003c\/i\u003e) and the commercial (ships, spices, soft goods) imagery dominant in the trivial fictional subplot. Indeed, trade, especially of foodstuffs and specifically of wheat as evidenced in the name of the \u003ci\u003egracioso\u003c\/i\u003e and protagonist of the secondary plot, Salvado (bran or chaff of wheat), provides the primary focus of the play. If mercantilism was a deliberate pursuit of economic interests in order to buttress the state (J.I. Israel), then Lope's spectators would have recognized the simple dichotomy of the main and secondary plots as analogous, respectively, to the dual \u003ci\u003epolitique\u003c\/i\u003e and socio-economic approach to government. In this light, \u003ci\u003eLos españoles en Flandes\u003c\/i\u003e offers an objective and poignant view of the realities which powered Imperial Spain's war machinery in the Low Countries during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.\u003cbr\u003e It is precisely in viewing the serious historical and the delightfully entertaining fictional elements together that the modern reader can distill the original message encoded for Lope's live audience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e A. Robert Lauer,Veronica M. Sauter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820428248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820428246\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 286\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"A. Robert Lauer","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48587655184639,"sku":"9780820428246","price":68.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/lope-de-vegas-los-espazoles-a-robert-lauer-9780820428246","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}