Rupp, "Reason of State and Repetition in The Tempest and La vida es sueño"

Prospero and Basilio: Shakespeare and de la Barca

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AngelaPalumbo/2009/02/prospero_and_basilio_shakespea.html

What about Basilio to Caliban as Basilio to Babo = Basilio keeping his head!

The Key Difference Between Segismundo and Caliban—An Education

“He realizes he could call his father to account for denying him not only his patrimony, but also the most fundamental of human liberties. His understanding is, however, dangerously one-sided, in that he does not recognize limitation of any kind on his own conduct” (Rupp 310).
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/GretaCarroll/2009/03/the_key_difference_between_seg.html

“Political thinkers in both England and Spain follow the rhetoric and the arguments of anti-Machiavellian thought throughout Europe. They are eager to restate and reiterate the point from which Botero’s thinking departs: that God controls the unfolding of history through providence, and will surely humble any ruler who defies the ethics that He has bestowed upon humanity.”
-From Stephen Rupp’s “Reason of State and Repetition in The Tempest and La vida es sueño in Comparative Literature’s Fall 1990 Vol. 42.4 publication, pages 293-294
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EricaGearhart/2009/03/free_thinkers_and_divine_monar.html

Stop the Dangers
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JennaMiller/2009/03/stop-the-dangers.html

yucky politics, but...good point!

hmm.....

Repetition makes the heart grow fonder.

I know we are supposed to find a quote from each text that grabs our attention, but i didnt find that in this article. There were some i could have chosen, but instead im going to write about an idea this article brought to me that i had no thought about while watching, or reading "Life is a Dream".
I had not realized that in "Life is a Dream", there is an appearance of both Machiavelli's Princes. The first, "the is it better to be feared prince", appears in the beginning of the play during the dream sequence. He is the one who throws people out of windows, sometimes wish i could that. The second prince, "the is it better to be loved prince", appears at the end once Segismundo realizes that it was not a dream, and he better clean up his act if he is going to be a good ruler.
Not sure why this so interested me, but it did and i hope some of my classmates picked up on this as well.

"Spanish thinkers are equally mistrustful of any theory that conceives of politics as a purely secular endeavor."