Abstract

This article suggests a comparative study of Zaragoza’s and Madrid’s versions of La vida es sueño, aiming at analyzing the continuity or break in the political and philosophical approaches regarding maquiavelism, tacitism and neoestoicism.The analysis of the variants in the two texts demonstrates how alterations are not due to political and philosophical changes of the times in which they were written so much as to a greater tuning in the drift of the Spanish world towards coherence and universalism.