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This paper examines the dualities, symmetries and paralelisms of Casa con dos puertas, mala es de guardar, which affect to several aspects of the play, as the argument, the structure, the characters, the spaces and the dialogues. The study of the Calderón’s «perfect mathematics» [...]Abstract
The cloak and sword play should be directly linked to mythological festivals, not only because of the common plot structures of both, but also because of further important elements from the cloak and sword play that are adopted by mythological comedies with respect to dramatic rhythm, [...]Abstract
The present work analyses the presence of multiple scenic spatiality sequences in cloak and sword plays of Calderon. Multiple scenic spatiality is understood as the use of simultaneous and contiguous dramatic spaces, from a simple ingenious circumstance or a comic scene up to a complex [...]Abstract
This paper analyzes the way Calderon rewrote Cada loco con su tema by Hurtado de Mendoza in order to create El agua mansa. One of the main modifications is that the female characters are constructed in a completely different way. This has central implications for the play, because [...]