Journal articleAnuario Lope De Vega · January 1, 2017
This essay examines several factors that have stood in the way of an appropriate appreciation of the contributions of the theater of Lope de Vega and the Spanish comedia to early modern literature, factors that include political rivalries, oppositional nat ...
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Journal articleMemoria Y Civilizacion · January 1, 2016
The fascination aroused by El caballero de Olmedo is due in part to the power of attraction of the secrets it contains. Some of them are easy to penetrate, others difficult, particularly for a modern public less aware of the «public secrets» (Taussig) of s ...
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Journal articleAnuario Calderoniano · November 18, 2013
Calderón's court spectacle play Eco y Narciso was first performed in 1661 to celebrate the tenth birthday of the princess Margarita, the infanta in the center of Velázquez's painting Las meninas ( 1656). Calderón opens the drama with a celebration of the b ...
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Journal articleBulletin of Spanish Studies · June 1, 2013
From La vida es sueño to El postrer duelo de España and El pintor de su deshonra, Calderón repeatedly explores the weight of law on the individual, dramatizing the conflict between desire and law on both sides of the sexual divide. Law, invoked in its mult ...
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