"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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Rodríguez Loro, Nora
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
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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.