«Entre bobos (no) anda el juego»: convenciones genéricas, metateatro y efecto de recepción en la comedia de Rojas Zorrilla.

  • Sosa, Marcela Beatriz
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Publication date
April 2022
Publisher
Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid
Language
Spanish; Castilian

Abstract

We propose to analize Entre bobos anda el juego from Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla, doubly characterized as comedia de enredo and comedia de figurón by critics. Among these, the reading of Maria Grazia Profeti (1998) stands out. She considers don Lucas del Cigarral representative of the “violencia de las cosas, del dinero” and the “corporeidad grotesca”, although at the end he turns out the wisest uncovering the socioeconomic crisis of Empire. To understand the reason of this apparent incoherence, we based on the concept of metatheater, gender that materializes the theatrical perception of life and the self-consciousness of the character and/or of the playwright. Thus, don Lucas would not be that grotesque being who everybody laughs about but...

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