«Verdaderos y fingidos papeles» en «farsas de noche». Los momentos más calderonianos de Calderón

Taking up ideas forwarded by Henry W. Sullivan or Karl Vossler, we propose a study of Calderón’s comedies focused on moments of highest dramatic intensity and an analysis of the ways in which the steady growth of energy leads up to these great scenes. Many of them share a set of features and could be related to the poet’s lifelong existential concerns and philosophical obsessions. Whereas the end of the second jornada frequently shows the main character(s) in a state of epoché (an incapacity to discern truth from illusion) the third act takes them to a point where roles and false identities imposed by time and chance merge with the social roles assigned by the surrounding social world in accordance with a higher divine order.&nbsp