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En busca de la justicia social: Estudios sobre el teatro español del siglo de oro (review)

A number of studies on the Golden Age theater view the Spanish Comedia as the handmaid of an oppressive regime. For that reason alone, the title of this book is tantalizing enough. An enquiry into a concern for social justice as expressed in the theater could set out to examine social issues from many angles and perhaps elucidate to what extent playwrights reflected or defied contemporary thought and attitudes. In the event, despite Dr. Weiner's claim that 'este enfoque de justicia es lo que une todos los estudios de este libro' (Introduction) , the purpose would seem to be simply to bring together seven quite disparate essays rather than to open up new perspectives on the Comedia. Of these essays, four deal with the limpieza de sangre question, one with attitudes to the American native and one with adultery. The last chapter does not concern the theater at all but traces the ups and downs of the career of Juan de Horozco Covarrubias. Justice is taken as being a more or less tolerant attitude to Jews, Indians and women. Of the chapters dealing with the theater four adopt the thematic approach, taking up respectively Esther (chapter 1), Cyrus (chapter 3), Tobias (chapter 4) and Jacob and Esau (chapter 5) . Chapter 2 potentially offers more in that it makes a move to address a little studied concern: the enforced conversion of the native Indian, to which negative attitudes are expressed in two early comedias by Lope and one late 17thcentury play. Chapter 6 briefly examines four 16th-century translations of Plautus' Amphytrion which, given that they are translations, not surprisingly follow the model in their lighthearted treatment of adultery. The last chapter sets out to show, on the basis of historical documents,