Calderón deals with uxoricide following adultery in several of his works, providing different solutions according to the dramatic genre: human, commutative justice for secular plays; divine, merciful justice for religious plays (autos). On the other hand, contemporary laws al-lowed uxoricide in the case of women’s adultery, whereby the husband became judge, prosecutor and defence lawyer. The honour code went against the sense of justice itself, by punishing through vengeance those who had not committed any crime.
Abstract
Calderón deals with uxoricide following adultery in several of his works, providing different solutions according to the dramatic genre: human, commutative justice for secular plays; divine, merciful justice for religious plays (autos). On the other hand, contemporary laws [...]