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Spain and England in the later Seventeenth Century: Transnational Cultural and Political Contexts

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Baker-Bates, Piers
Malcolm, Alistair

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This chapter considers the English fascination for Spanish culture that prevailed during the seventeenth century. Although Iberian visual arts remained almost unknown to the subjects of the Stuart kings, the same cannot be said for other aspects of the Golden Age. As well as Spanish trade, Spanish religion, and Spanish gastronomy, the written word proved particularly attractive to Englishmen who collected volumes of Spanish literature for their libraries, and beheld adaptations of comedias performed in the London theatres. Sir Richard Fanshawe had been inspired from an early age with a love of things Spanish. Yet, after the Stuart Restoration his enthusiasm turned sour as he found himself caught up and destroyed by the conflicting interests of rival monarchs. Not so his wife Ann Fanshawe, who, along with so many of her compatriots, was seduced by the splendour of Habsburg Madrid and everything that it had to offer for its wealthy English visitors.
Este capítulo considera la fascinación inglesa por la cultura española que prevaleció durante el siglo XVII. Aunque las artes visuales ibéricas permanecieron casi desconocidas para los súbditos de los reyes Estuardo, no puede decirse lo mismo de otros aspectos del Siglo de Oro. Además del comercio español, la religión española y la gastronomía española, la palabra escrita resultaba especialmente atractiva para los ingleses que coleccionaban volúmenes de literatura española para sus bibliotecas y contemplaban adaptaciones de co- medias representadas en los teatros de Londres. Sir Richard Fanshawe, desde temprana edad, se había inspirado con amor por los temas españoles. Sin embargo, después de la Restauración Estuardo, su entusiasmo se cayó cuando se vio atrapado y destruido por los intereses en conflicto de los monarcas rivales. No así su esposa Ann Fanshawe, quien, junto a muchos de sus compatriotas, se dejó seducir por el esplendor del Madrid de los Austrias y todo lo que tenía que ofrecer a sus adinerados visitantes ingleses.

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