"Calderón’s and Wycherley’s Dancing-masters"
Wycherley’s second comedy, The Gentleman Dancing-Master, is loosely based upon the central plot of Pedro Calderón’s El maestro de danzar, which is adapted to produce a comedy of wit in line with the theatrical fashions of the 1670s. The purpose of this paper is to analyse Wycherley’s use of his sour...
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| Tipo de recurso: | capítulo de libro |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2015 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Salamanca (USAL) |
| Repositorio: | GREDOS. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Salamanca |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:gredos.usal.es:10366/156993 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10366/156993 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | adaptation El maestro de danzar Calderón The Gentleman Dancing-Master Wycherley Spanish comedia Restoration theatre comparative literature 5506.13 Historia de la Literatura 5505.10 Filología |
| Sumario: | Wycherley’s second comedy, The Gentleman Dancing-Master, is loosely based upon the central plot of Pedro Calderón’s El maestro de danzar, which is adapted to produce a comedy of wit in line with the theatrical fashions of the 1670s. The purpose of this paper is to analyse Wycherley’s use of his source and to identify the characters, and introducing a cynical view of marriage. |
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