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reassessed taking into consideration anthropological, civil, legal, lexical, moral, philosophical, theological and psychological aspects. An application of this refurbished concept follows, wherein the idea of honor as a social concept and as a moral attribute clash in three villein plays: Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s The Mayor of Zalamea (El alcalde de Zalamea) and Lope de Vega’s All Citizens Are Soldiers (Fuenteovejuna), and Peribáñez and the Comendador of Ocaña (Peribáñez y el Comendador de Ocaña).

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In the manuscript of Yerros de Naturaleza y aciertos de la Fortuna preserved in the Biblioteca Nacional, the folios attributed to Antonio Coello are not autograph, as has always been assumed. This fact imposes the need to reinterpret the textual interventions made by whoever it was who copied these parts of the text, undoubtedly someone linked to a theatre company. There are clear signs that, without consulting the poets, the company introduced important changes in their text, even reordering segments of the third act.

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The Devotion of the Cross and The Purgatory of Saint Patrick are a good example of the continuous exercise of the interest that Calderón shows for auto-rewriting and use of own materials. Certainly, these two religious comedies share the turn to repentance from a sinner, the central presence of the symbol of the cross, the miracle of the soul that does not abandon the body and allows the salvation and the design of the comic agent. In short, it is a case that reveals some of the dramatic keys of the poet and his effort of perfection between different works.