Abstract

This study presents an analysis of the conventions of the cloak and sword play and their parodic inversion in Solís’ El doctor Carlino. In the decade of 1630 the cloak and sword play becomes wittier and this essay studies how Solís experiments with these new ways by mixing the prominence of this false doctor —a character drawn from Gongora—, the treatment of space and time and the generalisation of the comical effect.