La (re)escritura cervantina de Pedro de Urdemalas

Abstract

The character Pedro de Urdemalas enters Cervantes’ fictional universe already weighed down by the baggage of a long and complex series of vicissitudes in the broader cultural “text.” Cervantes adopts the paradigm and, taking advantage of the character's protean nature, (re)writes him with certain deviations —which took shape practically and pragmatically— appropriate to his new context. Seen from this perspective, the (re)writing of Pedro de Urdemalas, transforming the legacy of tradition, is a good example of the intertextual movements which so often cross paths in the Cervantine universe, and which ultimately enrich the shaping of character and the textual space of the comedia.