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The actual essay analyzes briefly the situation of the Calderonian plays within the new taste of the Neoclassicist period, in order to examine the editions of his work that were printed from the end of the 17th century to the middle of the 18th. First of all, we study the editorial [...]

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The success of Spiritual Literature in Golden Age, especifically St Augustine prays and his autobiography Confessions, are used by Lope de Vega to reflect the official position of the Catholic Counter-Reformation. The Sacramental play shows these rethoric aspirations and Lope, in [...]

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In the critical bibliography referred to Lope de Vega, the scholar usually finds the image of this author as a forerunner of Calderón. A good strategy to verify this impression is through partial studies as this devoted to the analysis of the bestiary in the sacramental plays. This [...]

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The author of this article reviews the critical bibliography of the sacramental plays by Lope to show how scholars have always considered that this writer adapted elements and resources taken from his comedies into the sacramental plays. Actually, this article analyses the code of [...]

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In Calderón’s sacramental plays, we frequently find stage effects of dreaming, in which the characters sleep or dream different actions. The author of this article divides these effects in two types: dreamers and sleepers. We can not consider this theatrical operation as a simple [...]

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This article analyzes the image of the Divine Farmer (represented as the sower, the farm manager or the pater familias) and other figures who assume the role of farmers that are at service of the first one (the «obreros del Señor» or «jornaleros de la vida») in four allegorical [...]

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The playwright used the possibilities that offered the merchant of precious stones and species in order to create pieces of a great value concerning symbolism and stage design. In that way, as he did with other motives, he unified a quotidian reality with a literary and a religious [...]

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This article is an attempt to establish a comparison between two sacramental plays: La siega by Lope de Vega and La semilla y la cizaña by Calderón de la Barca, both texts written in the 17th century. The similarity hypothesis starts from the fact that they share the same biblical [...]

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The figure of the king’s favorite reappears in the Spanish political scene in the beginning of the seventeenth century. Lope, Tirso, Calderón, and other Spanish Golden Age playwrights portrayed these favorites, modeling them after the duke of Lerma and the count duke of Olivares. [...]

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The aim of this article is to study the textual and dramatic history of the Loa del juego de la pelota, a text attributed to Calderón de la Barca which was originally published in 1668 as part of the volume entitled Ociosidad entretenida. First of all, we attempt to analyse the date [...]