Abstract

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 [...]

Abstract

Si en El burlador de Sevilla contrapone Tirso la mítica e ideal Lisboa a la corrompida y envilecida Sevilla, en la comedia que nos ocupa, construye la imperial y eterna Toledo, confrontándola con el núcleo principal de España: Madrid. Desde Toledo a Madrid no es la única obra [...]