Sangre y sol en el Arauco domado de Lope de Vega: simbología metafórica para una comedia histórico-nobiliaria

Abstract

Arauco domado by Lope de Vega (published in 1625, but surely written around 1599-1603) is a historical-noble comedy intended to praise Don García Hurtado Hurtado de Mendoza, within the framework of a broad propaganda campaign aimed at counteracting the negative image of the IV Marquis of Cañete offered by Ercilla in La Araucana. In the text of the piece, a complex network of metaphorical allusions of high symbolic value is created around the concepts of blood and sun, which refer to different ideas and meanings.

Keywords

• Vega Lope de
• Spanish Golden Age Theatre
• literary symbology
• blood
• sun