Perilous Passions explores the ethical implications of emotion in Spanish Golden Age theatre.

List of Figures
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Can Feelings Be Wrong?

1. The Impure: Disgust
2. Question Your Desires
3. The Problem of Hate
4. Loneliness for Two (a.k.a. Love)
5. The Wounding Smell of Sorrow
6. Ode to Joy
7. Fear Itself
8. That White Sustenance, Despair
9. Hope Against Hope

Conclusion: The Soul’s Theatre

Notes
Bibliography
Index of Comedias

Hilaire Kallendorf is a professor of Hispanic and religious studies in the Department of Global Languages and Cultures at Texas A&M University.