El Viejo, el Amor y la Hermosa as a Spectacular Text

Authors

  • Lillian von der Walde Moheno Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa

Keywords:

The Old Man, Cupid, and Beautiful, Medieval Theater, Staging in the Middle Ages, Love and Aging

Abstract

Inspired by Rodrigo Cota’s Dialogue between Love and an Old man, Interlocutores senex et amor mulierque pulcra forma is a very interesting work conceived for the stage; however, it does not have any stage direction, implying that the “spectacular text” should be drawn from the semantic-formal construction of discursive verbal signs in the voices of the characters. From these signs, I will analyze several aspects contained in the structure, which I determined is tripartite (beginning, middle and end); for example, the actio (gestus, motus and vultus), the pronuntiatio, the representation of the fictional spaces and the required elements of characterization. I will also discuss the space for the staging; I shall examine the cultural elements of characterization, regarding the kinds of gestures to be performed on stage (through the use of rhetorical books and iconographic works). Finally, I will analyze the semantic aspects associated with all those elements. 

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Published

2019-04-23

How to Cite

von der Walde Moheno, L. (2019). El Viejo, el Amor y la Hermosa as a Spectacular Text. Letras, 2(72), 199–212. Retrieved from https://erevistas.uca.edu.ar/index.php/LET/article/view/1783

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Section

Ponencias. Estudios de literatura española medieval