Abstract
The composition of the dramatic texts of the Golden Age aims at their on stage peformance, and so, some of their textual elements direct them towards a particular staging. The play La franchota has, on one hand, characters which, when performed, can be easily identified by the spectators [...]Abstract
This article explores the ways in which a Golden Age joke is manipulated to become an integral part of Calderón’s La casa holgona. Antón, the Flemish student, turns the joke into a verbal weapon that insults, offends and ridicules one of the prostitutes in the entremés. The joke, [...]