The Dramatic Art of Guillén De Castro

Summing up the discussion will be the main conclusions reached about the art of Castro as a dramatist. These conclusions can be briefly expressed as follows: (1) the basic structure of the plays, and Castro\u27s ideals and motivations, had their inception in the Valencian theater of his youth; (2) the main contribution of the Lopean comedia was to teach him the techniques for attaining greater unity of action and to instruct him in the uses of humor; (3) Castro\u27s greatest inspiration came from popular sources such as the romancero, rather than from learned works; (4) his work is exceedingly subjective; and (5) his greatest achievement lie in the area of the re-creation of legendary material, of characterization, and of the building of scenes of great emotional intensity