Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro

Tirso de Molina's comedy «Las Quinas de Portugal» and Salazar's censorship

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In March 1968, Portuguese censors stopped the broadcast on public television —which was the only television network at the time— of Tirso de Molina’s comedy Las quinas de Portugal. This play stages the most important creation myth for the Portuguese nation: on the eve of the [...]
Anuario Calderoniano

From Orpheus to Orpheus. Myth and Exegesis in the Dramatic Work of Lope and Calderón

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The present work aims to analyze different interpretations of the myth of Orpheus made by Lope de Vega and Calderón de la Barca. Apart from trying to establish relations between various plays, the analysis deals in particular with the different ways in which the conventions of a [...]
Anuario Calderoniano

"Yo, que al teatro del mundo / cómica tragedia fui": Myth, Tragedy, Desengaño and Allegory in Calderón's Eco y Narciso

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Eco y Narciso demonstrates the paradoxical coexistence of mutually exclusive views of its mythological material: on one hand, in the foreground of the scene, as it were, we have a tragic reading of the myth characterized by te moving representation of subjective feeling and a realist [...]