MIRROR NEURONS,THEATRICAL MIRRORS AND THE HONOR CODE

de mi honra: no está olvidada la ciencia... (El médico de su honra) As Gutierre obeys King Pe d ro ’s command to give Leonor his blood-bathed hand in marriage at the end of Calderón’s version of El médico de su honra, he reminds both the king and his new wife that he is a practicing surgeon of honor, that he does not forget his devotion to that «science». Certainly our understanding of «science » has evolved over the centuries, but the definition that Covarrubias gave the word in 1611 is still pertinent: «Ciencia. Scientia. es el conocimiento cierto de alguna cosa por su causa»1. As readers or spectators of Calderón’