This study examines the humor employed by the stock comic figure, known as the gracioso, in the plays of Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla, a major playwright of Early Modern Spanish Theater. The self-mocking nature of the humor employed by that theater’s indispensable gracioso, with its subsequent prioritization of laughter, ties the comic figure to the then surviving medieval tradition of the popular carnivalesque. This tie lends the popular stock comic figure’s humorous output an overall popular/carnivalesque identity that gives expression to a popular sub-culture. As a representative of the popular sub-culture, the stock comic figure’s comical contribution, the laughter it produces, may be seen as a manner of confronting the hegemonic esta...
The humor derived from misunderstandings, such as disguises, play-within-a-play, personae exchanges,...
This paper examines Shakespeare’s cultural context, focusing on several examples of irony, intended...
Primero es la honra que el gusto is presented as a clear example of the evolution of cape-and-sword ...
This study examines the humor employed by the stock comic figure, known as the gracioso, in the play...
grantor: University of TorontoThis dissertation is a critical study of the Spanish comic t...
This study centers on the graciosa, the female stock comic figure of early modern Spanish theater. ...
This paper offers an approach to the main features and conventions of the burlesque comedy of the Sp...
This paper offers an approach to the main features and conventions of the burlesque comedy of the Sp...
A vast bibliography exists on the figura del donaire in Golden Age Spanish Theatre. Critical studies...
The primary purpose of this study is to determine just what is meant by the term 'comedia de figuró...
The present article analyzes the various dramatic functions developed by the three graciosos of the ...
Es común en la crítica del teatro áureo destacar la función metaliteraria del personaje del gracioso...
Resumen:Es común en la crítica del teatro áureo destacar la función metaliteraria del personaje del ...
This dissertation is a study of the material cultural and social practices found in Spanish one-act ...
This dissertation studies selected works of the Guatemalan writer Augusto Monterroso and documents r...
The humor derived from misunderstandings, such as disguises, play-within-a-play, personae exchanges,...
This paper examines Shakespeare’s cultural context, focusing on several examples of irony, intended...
Primero es la honra que el gusto is presented as a clear example of the evolution of cape-and-sword ...
This study examines the humor employed by the stock comic figure, known as the gracioso, in the play...
grantor: University of TorontoThis dissertation is a critical study of the Spanish comic t...
This study centers on the graciosa, the female stock comic figure of early modern Spanish theater. ...
This paper offers an approach to the main features and conventions of the burlesque comedy of the Sp...
This paper offers an approach to the main features and conventions of the burlesque comedy of the Sp...
A vast bibliography exists on the figura del donaire in Golden Age Spanish Theatre. Critical studies...
The primary purpose of this study is to determine just what is meant by the term 'comedia de figuró...
The present article analyzes the various dramatic functions developed by the three graciosos of the ...
Es común en la crítica del teatro áureo destacar la función metaliteraria del personaje del gracioso...
Resumen:Es común en la crítica del teatro áureo destacar la función metaliteraria del personaje del ...
This dissertation is a study of the material cultural and social practices found in Spanish one-act ...
This dissertation studies selected works of the Guatemalan writer Augusto Monterroso and documents r...
The humor derived from misunderstandings, such as disguises, play-within-a-play, personae exchanges,...
This paper examines Shakespeare’s cultural context, focusing on several examples of irony, intended...
Primero es la honra que el gusto is presented as a clear example of the evolution of cape-and-sword ...