Abstract
This essay reviews the controversy over the political interpretations of Calderón’s mythological play, El mayor encanto, amor. While a number of scholars perceive a critique of the Count-Duke of Olivares through the characterization of the witch Circe, others deny such an interpretation [...]Abstract
El mayor encanto amor includes an enigmatic character that is almost hidden in this spectacle play.Timanthes, who only speaks some twenty lines in the play, represents an onomastic mnemonics, as his name reminds a learned spectator of the famous painter of classical antiquity. Calderón [...]