Lo santo y lo visible en El Príncipe constante de Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Abstract

Our focus is the analysis of the role of the visual within a remarkable comedia de santos, Calderon’s The Constant Prince. In this work, the playwright does not proffer to stage the supernatural elements in a sensational way, i.e. through the use of machines and artificial stage props, as is the case in other similar plays. Calderon retrieves other visual possibilities within the dramatic experience (mental and verbal images, scenic images, figures…) in order to showcase, instead of a miraculous sainthood, the spectacle of a man who submits to the dispossession of his own self, and the advent of the divine in its stead.

Keywords

• Calderón de la Barca Pedro
• comedia de santos
• sainthood
• visual
• mental images
• scenic images