Abstract

This article studies the relation between the main and the secondary plot in Calderón’s comedy Casa con dos puertas, mala es de guardar. The critic analyzes the connection between the main story line of Marcela and Lisardo and the second one, the one of Laura and Félix. González García concludes that the secondary plot shows a more complex structure than the main one: more dynamism and ambiguity in the characters’ behaviour and more complexity in the jealousy motif. The author relates this comedy, in which the secondary plot it is not something supplementary but an important part of the dramatic system, with the mannerist aesthetics.