Language:
English
Year of publication:
2019
Titel der Quelle:
European Journal of Jewish Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
13,2 (2019) 182-226
Keywords:
Barrios, Miguel de,
;
Penso de la Vega, Josef,
;
Zacuto, Moses ben Mordecai,
;
Enríquez Gómez, Antonio,
;
Bible In literature
;
Hebrew drama History and criticism 17th century
;
Autos sacramentales Influence
;
Sephardim History 17th century
;
Jewish theater History 17th century
;
Judaism in literature
Abstract:
This article identifies a set of plays written in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by ‘new Jews’ in the Western Sephardi Diaspora, as autos sacramentales. It discusses essential characteristics of this genre, such as the dual—theomachic and psychomachic—level, the triangle constellation of allegorical characters with human nature in its center and the representatives of good and evil on both sides, and the parallelism created in the play between the cosmic story, the story of humanity, and the story of the individual human soul. It is argued that these characteristics are to be found in plays written by Jews in the Early Modern Era. The article maintains that the appearance of this corpus of plays in the history of Jewish writing indicates that an underlying structure of the psychic and historical consciousness of Western culture had not skipped the Jewish cultural world.
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