Abstract:In the later seventeenth century, máquina real companies performed full-length religious plays in the corrales de comedia using puppets instead of human actors. Much of their repertoire consisted of comedias de santos affirming the sovereignty of free will. This essay explores the possible dissonance produced among early modern audiences who watched a puppet—seemingly a metonym for manipulation—insist on his free will. Through close reading of a diverse assortment of theatrical, theological, and political texts, I reconstruct the metaphorical meaning of puppet, which turns out to have curiously distinct resonances in the Catholic and Protestant traditions.

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拉线：西班牙舞台上的木偶和自由意志

摘要：在 17 世纪后期，真机公司使用木偶代替人类演员在喜剧围栏内表演完整的宗教戏剧。他们的大部分剧目包括确认自由意志主权的喜剧。这篇文章探讨了在观看木偶的早期现代观众中可能产生的不和谐——似乎是操纵的转喻——坚持他的自由意志。通过仔细阅读各种各样的戏剧、神学和政治文本，我重构了傀儡的隐喻意义，结果证明它在天主教和新教传统中产生了奇怪的不同共鸣。