Estudios de Teoría Literaria (Mar 2019)
The passions of the war in two tragedies of the Golden Age: The Great Semiramis by Virués and The Daughter of the Air by Calderón
Abstract
We inscribe the considerations of the present work inside the research nowadays in process on the melancholy and the madness in the theatre of the Golden Age. We are interested in investigating how there are represented two passions that cross recurrently the dramatic baroque productions, specially those referred to tragic genre: the melancholy and the madness. These passions, which have been studied from multiple perspectives (as diseases, social practices, modes), turn out to be frequently associated with the war. In consequence, we will focus our work in the representations of the above mentioned passions in interrelationship with the semantic field of struggle, whether external or internal, in two texts linked by the rewriting: The Great Semiramis by Cristóbal de Virués and The Daughter of the Air by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. We will analyze the construction of a specific rhetoric in each one that notices on a social imaginary of unusual turbulence.
