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Architecture and the Comedia
- Bulletin of the Comediantes
- Bulletin of the Comediantes
- Volume 36, Number 1, Summer 1984
- pp. 23-31
- 10.1353/boc.1984.0012
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J. D. Merriman («The Parallel of the Arts») warns critics away from impressionistic analogues between literature and the arts while advocating analysis of the formal aesthetic principles common to the various genres. A study of 17th century Spanish architecture illumines certain aspects of the Comedia: the tendency of using architecture to create framing devices for human actions, with an attendant preoccupation with symmetry; and the constant juxtaposition of structural elements of diverse and contrasting stylistic registers to create texture. (DMG)