This paper aims at analysing the corpus of proverbs in Calderón de la Barca’s plays. As a matter of fact, many of don Pedro’s plays are entitled according to one of the corpus proverbs. Furthermore, the plot is always elaborated starting from the title and the title proverb is continuosly inserted in the text. This essay aims not only at finding proverbial quotations into the lexical structure, but especially at discovering how they have been inserted as well as the level of awareness in every quotation.
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This paper aims at analysing the corpus of proverbs in Calderón de la Barca’s plays. As a matter of fact, many of don Pedro’s plays are entitled according to one of the corpus proverbs. Furthermore, the plot is always elaborated starting from the title and the title proverb is [...]