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The purpose of this article is to study how the trends of diversion and consumption determined the comic elements of the short plays through the analysis of the comic Mayor within the urban space. I focus on several interludes where commerce and the use of new products and habits [...]

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In the second half of the XVII century, Spanish romances of chivalry continued providing the theater and courtly festivities with characters, topic and motifs. Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneira’s interlude, El niño caballero, picks up a number of motifs from the heroic archetype [...]

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The Coloquio de Gila by Lope de Rueda, which came to light less than a decade ago, presents the figure of the black woman Sofía with a number of identifying characteristics. Some of these characteristics are already found in poetic texts that contain a noticeable element of dramatisation [...]