Burlesque Authority and Modernity in Baroque Short Theater

Abstract

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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