Abstract

Burlesque poetry was a resource that playwrights like Calderon used to renew worn mechanisms of comedies. In this sense, No hay burlas con el amor is a paradigmatic work, since Calderon, apart from creating humor by inverting dramatic formulas, used some resources of burlesque poetry, which, in terms of performance, showed that the work was an artifice and that it provoked laughter within the audience. The aim of this article is, precisely, to show how this process worked through the dialogue that is established between the dramatic text and the spectacular text of the work.