Calderón's Use of the Run-on Line: More Evidence against his Authorship of "El gran duque de Gandía"

In 1640, the Mexican Jesuit Matías Bocanegra wrote La comedia de San Francisco de Borja to celebrate the arrival of a new viceroy. In the spring of 1671, Calderón wrote El gran duque de Gandía to celebrate the canonization of St. Francis Borgia. Both plays had long been thought lost; Bocanegra's came to light in 1953 and Calderón's in 1958. Both plays deal with the same historical figures and depend upon the same sources to a degree. But it is the similarity of dramatic technique, the identity of fictitious personages and the similar structure in both dramas that are persuasive indications that Calderón used Bocanegra's work extensively. Circumstances and need dictated this borrowing, although Calderón recast the work In his own inimitable language and style and heightened the sub plot by borrowing from another Jesuit source, Calleja. (TH)

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The Run-on Line in the Poetry of the Comedia

Wooldridge¹

1986

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Certain types of run-on lines were utilized from the earliest days of the Spanish theater, undoubtedly to avoid the monotony of a pause at the end of each line and to approximate natural speech. Other types of run-on lines were rather rare until Calderón's time. In his earliest plays Calderón's use of the run-on line resembles that of his predecessors. However, he rapidly expanded his utilization of this poetic device, more than tripling its use by the end of his career. He employed all the types that had been unused or rarely used before and even had recourse to the extremely rare lexical type. His Influence upon his contemporaries in this respect is patent. While it appears likely that the run-on line continued to be used primarily to provide greater rhythmic variety, it seems equally certain that it was also frequently employed for a specific aesthetic purpose, which involves the placement of the first element of the separated syntactical unit in the final stressed syllable of the line.

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Calderón's Use of the Run-on Line: More Evidence against his Authorship of "El gran duque de Gandía"

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Bibliography of Publications on the Comedia (1982-1983)

Bibliography of Publications on the Comedia (1982-1983)

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