De la relação a la comedia: La desgracia más felice (1645), de António de Almeida

Abstract

The subject of this paper is the play La desgracia más felice, by António de Almeida (Lisbon, Pablo Craesbeeck, 1645). Written in Spanish, as usual in Portuguese theater at that time, it’s about the adventures of the second count of Castel Melhor in Cartagena de Indias in 1641, only a few months after the beginning of the Portuguese revolution against the Spanish monarchy. First, the author of the article shows that an anonimous account of the facts printed in Lisbon in 1642 is the main source of the play. After that, he explains some of the artistic procedures used by the writer in adapting the narrative raw to the dramatic form and in particular to the style of the Spanish Golde Age comedia at the time of Calderón de la Barca.

Keywords

• Almeida António de
• Conde de Castel Melhor
• relaciones literarias hispano-portuguesas
• restauración de Portugal
• teatro portugués del siglo XVII