Abstract

The article traces in four sections an overview of the forms of violence present in Calderón’s theater. The first section is responsible for its most intense expression: war. The second prolongs with the analysis of its contagious nature which takes place both in the field of political and familiar conflicts, thus violence permeates all levels of society and increases even more when mixed both territories: the political and the individual. In the third section violence is considered in relation to the universe of honor, territory where is well defined its dominance. Finally, the last part discusses the language of violence in its complex theatrical dimension: as word and as scene.