Library of Rassegna iberistica

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Chapter | Un teatro, quizá, demasiado ‘novelesco’

Un teatro, quizá, demasiado ‘novelesco’

Algunas consideraciones acerca de la composición dramática de Cervantes

Abstract

There is much criticism that focuses on searching for dramatic elements in Miguel de Cervantes’ novels. However, it is possible to observe other interactions between genres, present not only in his narrative, but also in his theater. Cervantes was undoubtedly an expert in the art of ‘romanticizing’ and his technique seems to push the boundaries of genres and contaminate El Quijote and Las novelas ejemplares with elements of drama, theater ‘not shown’ with features of narrative. The aim of this paper is to offer some reflections on certain hybridity between the form of the drama and the novel, verified in Cervantes’ plays, especially in his Ocho comedias y ocho entremeses nuevos nunca representados (1615), in order to identify potential interference of the constituent elements of the novel and the short story in Cervantes’ works. It becomes thus possible to identify a connection between action, common in comedy, and exposure of a complexity of intimacies and psychologies, linked to narrating, which can result in a type of theater that is ‘too literary’.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Submitted: July 13, 2015 | Accepted: Dec. 14, 2016 | Language: it

Keywords Spanish Novel • Spanish Golden Age • Cervantes • Theater

Copyright © 2017 Giselle Macedo. 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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