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Author Kallendorf, Hilaire, 1974- author.

Title Ambiguous antidotes : virtue as vaccine for vice in early modern Spain / Hilaire Kallendorf
Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource : color illustrations
Series Toronto Iberic ; 30
Toronto Iberic ; 30.
Contents Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Prologue: Virtuous Genealogies -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I Virtue as a Medical Metaphor -- II Correspondences of Virtue to Vice -- III Antidotes -- IV Pharmakon -- V The Golden Mean -- 1 Blind Justice -- 2 Fleeting Fortitude -- 3 Charity as Greed -- 4 Loose Chastity -- 5 Prudence: Panacea or Placebo? -- 6 Class Trumps Sex: The (En)gendering of Virtue -- Conclusion -- I (Not Just) the Veneer of Virtue -- II Virtus or Virus? -- III Historical / Literary Roots
IV Machiavellian VirtùV Erasmus at the Theatre -- Epilogue: Virtual Virtue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Comedias
Summary In Ambiguous Antidotes, Hilaire Kallendorf explores the receptions of Virtues in the realm of moral philosophy and the artistic production it influenced during the Spanish Gold Age
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 26, 2017)
Subject Spanish drama -- Classical period, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
Virtues in literature.
DRAMA -- Continental European.
PHILOSOPHY -- General.
Spanish drama -- Classical period
Virtues in literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781487514648
1487514646