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• Metrical forms, spaces and structures in ¿De cuándo acá nos vino? of Lope de Vega

  M. Vitse

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2013). Vol. 1, (1), 1

  
  

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  The article examines the role of the metric in the structural design of the comedy ¿De cuando acá nos vino? by Lope de Vega, highlighting its importance, related, but not subordinated to the spatial changes and other criteria. The careful analysis of the metrical organization allows to note the elaborate technique of Lope, which maintains a remarkable consistency in the scenic, geographic, chronological, theatrical and metric criteria, in the step from one to another macrosequences established in the analysis.

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  The article examines the role of the metric in the structural design of the comedy ¿De cuando acá nos vino? by Lope de Vega, highlighting its importance, related, but not [...]

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• The Art of Conversation: A Virtuous or Inmoral Delight?

  C. Strosetzki

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2013). Vol. 1, (1), 1

  
  

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  Recent linguistic pragmatics has emphasized that talking is acting. Action, however, belongs to the field of ethics. Hence, of what nature is the relationship that exists between the norms of ethics and the rules of conversation? The question is easy to answer on particular cases, for example, when asking about the permissibility of lying and deception. The matter, however, becomes more complex, when comparing the field of ethics to the rules of conversation, so it will be studied first. Then, the forms of regulated existence in society and conversation are correlated with those in politics and state. This raises the question of the extent to which the society that comes together in sociable conversation is to be seen in analogy to the society of state, so that parallels between the political theory and the theory of sociability can be found. Due to the special significance of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas in the Late Scholasticism of the Spanish Golden Age, we take the Aristotelian ethics and politics as the starting point for this investigation.

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  Recent linguistic pragmatics has emphasized that talking is acting. Action, however, belongs to the field of ethics. Hence, of what nature is the relationship that exists [...]

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• Marmosets, Raree shows and Pulcinelle: an Analysis and Edition of a Hitherto-Unpublished Carnival Play by Antonio de Zamora

  F. Plata

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2013). Vol. 1, (1), 1

  
  

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  This paper is an analyisis, annotation and edition of the Mojiganga del mundinovo (‘The raree show, a carnival play’) by Antonio de Zamora. The play was performed in 1698 Madrid by the troupe of Carlos Vallejo, along with the sacramental one-act play El templo vivo de Dios (‘The living temple of God’). The hitherto unpublished text is based on the only two extant manuscripts, located in archives in Madrid. Despite the play’s title, my analysis argues that the novelty in this play is not so much the raree show, a contraption popularized four decades earlier in Golden Age theater, as the marmosets. The death of two marmosets and the ensuing desolation of their owner, Ms. Estupenda, both trigger the play and provide it with a plot. The marmosets, too, point to a changing mentality in late 17th-century society, regarding the possession among ladies of marmosets and other monkeys as pets.

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  This paper is an analyisis, annotation and edition of the Mojiganga del mundinovo (‘The raree show, a carnival play’) by Antonio de Zamora. The play was performed in 1698 [...]

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• Burlesque Authority and Modernity in Baroque Short Theater

  A. Guijarro-Donadiós

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2013). Vol. 1, (1), 1

  
  

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  The purpose of this article is to study how the trends of diversion and consumption determined the comic elements of the short plays through the analysis of the comic Mayor within the urban space. I focus on several interludes where commerce and the use of new products and habits are the principal means of making fun of the rural authority figure in the emerging new society of consumers in the 17th century.

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  The purpose of this article is to study how the trends of diversion and consumption determined the comic elements of the short plays through the analysis of the comic Mayor [...]

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• Comicality and devotion: festive laugh in Lope de Vega’s hagiographical comedia

  N. Rodríguez

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2013). Vol. 1, (1), 1

  
  

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  Taking into consideration Lope de Vega’s corpus of hagiographical comedia, we value how the typical comicality of arte nuevo became compatible with that pious sense which was essential to hagiographical plays. We discuss the different roles played by festive laugh in a dramatic subgenre which intended to lead the audience to devotion. The aim of this article is to deepen into the strategies through which comedias de santos contributed to a double prospect, festive and pious.

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  Taking into consideration Lope de Vega’s corpus of hagiographical comedia, we value how the typical comicality of arte nuevo became compatible with that pious sense which [...]

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• The Deified Courtier: Pagan Spectacles in El burlador de Sevilla

  F. Armas

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2013). Vol. 1, (1), 1

  
  

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  This essay looks at pagan disguises utilized in plays and courtly entertainments of the Golden Age, focusing on El burlador de Sevilla. Don Juan and all those who surround him, turn to mythology, pretending to be deities and thus reflecting the theatrical culture of the court where the nobility often assumed such pagan guises. When he metamorphoses himself into Jupiter, don Juan reminds us that this particular guise was common in most European courts of the times were courtiers and kings imagined themselves as abiding in a new Olympus. Don Juan, then, defies society, utilizing the same symbols of power that served to exalt the Habsburgs. Don Juan’s power of metamorphosis is seen most clearly in Tisbea and Isabela who both play the part of Europa to the god/bull.

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  This essay looks at pagan disguises utilized in plays and courtly entertainments of the Golden Age, focusing on El burlador de Sevilla. Don Juan and all those who surround [...]

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• Power relationships and conflicts between families and individuals: Lope de Vega’s Los enemigos en casa

  F. Antonucci

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2013). Vol. 1, (1), 1

  
  

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  Los enemigos en casa is a comedy written by Lope de Vega that has been scarcely studied. The plot focuses on the enmity among two sevillian families and the serious problems it causes to a couple of lovers belonging to the rival fa­milies. The article examines how Lope dramatizes intergenerational discord, showing paternal authoritarism’s excess, and most of all, the way it states the improper idea of familiar honor that’s displayed by paternal uncles, along the same lines of the arcaical role of patruus.

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  Los enemigos en casa is a comedy written by Lope de Vega that has been scarcely studied. The plot focuses on the enmity among two sevillian families and the serious problems [...]

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• El niño caballero’s interlude and the burlesque rewriting of Romances of Chivalry

  M. Perdomo

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2013). Vol. 1, (1), 1

  
  

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  In the second half of the XVII century, Spanish romances of chivalry continued providing the theater and courtly festivities with characters, topic and motifs. Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneira’s interlude, El niño caballero, picks up a number of motifs from the heroic archetype that characterizes the knight, and he rewrites them in a burlesque tone. Also, the theatrical interlude stages a play of dances that the actors, among them, the famous «Juan Rana» present to the public. The article is accompanied by the critical edition of the text.

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  In the second half of the XVII century, Spanish romances of chivalry continued providing the theater and courtly festivities with characters, topic and motifs. Antonio de [...]

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• Towards the burlesque novella: Salas Barbadillo, Castillo Solórzano, and Tirso’s Los tres maridos burlados

  F. Mansilla

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2013). Vol. 1, (1), 1

  
  

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  This article draws attention to a type of XVIIth century novella that has been neglected or simply studied as a derivation of other literary manifestations. My objective is to define the main characteristics of a short narrative that we can name «burlesque novella». I define it as a short story (the regular extension of the baroque novella) containing in the heart of its plot an elaborate trick with an exemplary purpose. From this perspective, the burlesque novella is a show organized by noblemen for noblemen, composed by educated writers, that incorporated ridiculous characters on stage. The burlesque novella —founded by Salas Barbadillo, and continued by Castillo Solórzano and Tirso de Molina— is a narrative genre still misunderstood and in need of further exploration. Tirso’s Los tres maridos burlados is a paradigmatic literary piece from this genre.

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  This article draws attention to a type of XVIIth century novella that has been neglected or simply studied as a derivation of other literary manifestations. My objective is [...]

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• The academies as a social celebration of the Baroque: Their reflection in Antonio Enriquez Gomez

  M. Cáceres

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2013). Vol. 1, (1), 1

  
  

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  Academias morales de las musas (1642) by Antonio Enríquez Gómez is one of those miscellaneous works that make use of academia’s narrative artifice in order to compile poems, plays and other loose works. They are articulated upon the concurrence of several interlocutors who expound their ideas and feelings through compositions with different degrees of elaboration. In those verses, Antonio Enríquez Gómez pours his concerns about a life shaken by the persecution he suffered at the hands of the Inquisition because of his crypto-Judaism. Although he covers diverse themes, he is mainly concerned with providing moral reflections, and with the pessimist recreation of neo-stoic topics.

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  Academias morales de las musas (1642) by Antonio Enríquez Gómez is one of those miscellaneous works that make use of academia’s narrative artifice in order to compile [...]

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