Correspondencias & análisis

Felipe Sassone (1884-1959). The Spanish journalist who never stopped being Peruvian

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There is a little knowledge of writer and journalist Felipe Sassone, who was born in Lima (1884) and died in Madrid (1959), despite his intense literary and journalist life, specially [...]

Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro

San Tirso de Toledo, Lope de Vega’s Lost Tragedy

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This paper studies the series of fictional circumstances surrounding Lope’s lost tragedy, San Tirso de Toledo (1597), which was specifically commissioned by the town hall of Toledo to show that the city had a new patron saint, as the Jesuit Jerónimo Román de [...]

Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro

The Devil and his Dramatic Function in Calderon’s Autos Sacramentales

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In some Calderón’s autos sacramentales the character of the Devil draws the plot and establishes the dramatic action as a demiurge. He elaborates plans and strategies to confuse the Man, but he always fails. This function approaches the autos to the metatheater. Finally certain [...]
Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro

Review of «Comedias de Agustín Moreto. Segunda parte de comedias. Volumen VIII», María Luisa Lobato (dir.), Kassel, Reichenberger, 2013, 536 pp. (ISBN: 978-3-944244-10-5)

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Book's review
Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro

How many versions does an autograph offer? The authorial interventions in the autograph of Calderón’s «El secreto a voces»

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Pedro Calderón de la Barca never ceases to work. His constant in­terest to improve or adapt his texts has produced two versions of the same play in several occasions. His autographs allow us to examine his writing process as well as the theatrical practice in Golden Age Spain. In [...]
Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro

«Mujeres esquivas» and the Paternal Function

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Using the psychoanalytical concept of the paternal function, this article will explore the ways in which two similar plays, Lo que son mujeres by Francisco Rojas Zorilla and El desdén con el desdén by Agustín Moreto diverge in their endings, hinging on the function, or lack thereof, [...]
Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro

Golden Age Theatre Bills Revisited

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The present work updates research on Spanish Golden Age comedy bills and reproduces the so far known ones. It also offers valuable new information, in the light of current databases, meticulous library and archive catalogues, and the constant research carried out by qualified specialists [...]
Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro

Violence and Versification in «Renegado, rey y mártir» by Cristóbal de Morales

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A current tendency in Spanish Golden Age theatre studies is dramatic segmentation. In this sense, we must emphasize Marc Vitseʼs methodology, which suggests structuring the play according to the versification changes. We are going to put into practice this theory with a work by an [...]
Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro

«The Passion for Order». Virtual Convergences in the Allegorical Linealismo of «Two Angels and a Holy Archbishop» and in the Theological Symbolism of the Calderonian auto sacramental

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«The passion for order» that characterizes the Caledonian works can be seen in the optics capacity of the dramatist to produce auto sacramentales that maintain a direct correlation with the preceding pictorial works. In this line of analysis, this study presents the convergence [...]
Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro

Secrets and Tricks in a Lope de Vega’s Comedy: «El gran duque de Moscovia»

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This comedia by Lope de Vega has received few criticism until now. Most of the studies about this play deal with its date: 1613 is commonly accepted as the year of composition. This article tackles this problem and defends the year 1608 by establishing the connection between the comedia [...]