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Chapter | Los Armengoles de Cristóbal de Morales: fuentes y fortuna literarias

Los Armengoles de Cristóbal de Morales: fuentes y fortuna literarias

Abstract

Los Armengoles (performed in 1641) is a two-part play written by Cristóbal de Morales concerning the life of a Catalan martyr, St. Pedro Armengol, who lived in the 13th and 14th centuries. This work is based on El bandolero, a short novel by Tirso de Molina and published in his miscellaneous book entitled Deleitar aprovechando (1635). Both works share some characters and some important plot elements proving that Morales must have read Tirsoʼs novel. However, Los Armengoles is not a mere copy of El bandolero, because his author rewrote the plot and transformed the novel into a play. On the other hand, Moralesʼ work inspired another playwright at the end of the 17th century: José de Arroyo, who wrote a new version of St. Pedro Armengolʼs life, El honor en el suplicio, where some details which only appear in Moralesʼ play can be found. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to analyze the similarities and differences between the works and going through the the literary sources of the plays.   


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Submitted: July 13, 2015 | Accepted: March 31, 2016 | Language: it

Keywords José de Arroyo • Cristóbal de Morales • Literary sources • Intertextuality • Hagiographic drama

Copyright © 2017 Juan Manuel Carmona Tierno. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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