This thesis argues that the popularity of the clandestine marriage plot in English and Spanish drama following the Reformation corresponds closely to developments and emerging conflicts in European matrimonial law. My title, ‘casos de honra,' or ‘honour cases', unites law and drama in a way that captures this argument. Taken from the Spanish playwright Lope de Vega's El arte nuevo (1609), a treatise on his dramatic practice, the phrase has been understood as a description of the honour plots so common in Spanish Golden Age drama, but ‘casos' [cases] has a further, and related, legal meaning. Casos de honra are cases touching honour, whether portrayed on stage or at law, a European rather than a strictly Spanish phenomenon, and clandestine marriages are one such example. I trace the genealogy of three casos de honra from their recognisable origins in Italian novelle, through Italian, French, Spanish, and English adaptations, until their final early modern manifestations on the English and Spanish stage. Their seeming differences, and often radical divergences in plot can be explained with reference to their distinct, but related, legal concerns.

Por meio do estudo de algumas das tópicas medievais a presente dissertação se propõe a analisar o lai do trovador Joan Lobeyra intitulado Canção de Leonoreta. O desenvolvimento do trabalho levou à busca de diversas reinterpretações dadas à canção em diferentes momentos da histórias do mundo ibérico. Desse modo, o caminho percorrido conduziu à análise da reescritura da canção na novela de cavalaria intitulada Amadis de Gaula, na obra dos poetas portugueses Affonso Lopes Vieira e Silva Tavares e, finalmente, na obra da poetisa brasileira Cecília Meireles / By the study of some medieval topics, the current dissertation purposes to analyse \"The Chant of Loroneta\" by Joam Lobeira troubadour, the development of such a work led to the search for several interpretations given to the chant in different periods in iberian world history, in this view, the way followed was the one led to the analysis of the knight-errantry tale chant entitled Amadis de Gaul in Afonso Lopes Vieira and Silva Tavares\'s writings, both portuguese poets, in the writing of brazilian poetess Cecília Meireles

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2000. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 374-390). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

El nuevo palacio del Retiro (1634), El cubo de la Almudena (1651), La devoción de la misa (1658), and El santo rey don Fernando (first and second parts, 1671) are works of a religious literary genre unique to Spain: the auto sacramental. Until recently, such plays have suffered a lack of critical attention, possibly due to their complicated theological focus. Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600-1681), the master of this genre, is the author of nearly eighty of these one-act works celebrating the Eucharist. Of these, the most studied are those using biblical and mythological characters. Calderón's autos which use Spanish historical figures, such as the above five, have been the object of extremely few studies. Most of these analyses remain at a superficial level, focusing on the works' historical contents, rather than their central spiritual elements. These works illustrate the cosmography of the time and place of their conception. To uncover these autos' full meaning, it is necessary to interpret all other theatrical components in light of these works' primary topic: the Eucharist. Throughout El nuevo palacio del Retiro, El cubo de la Almudena, La devoción de la misa, and both parts of El santo rey don Fernando, the historical elements are framed by the spiritual. In the first, a competition in which the king participates is presented as an image of the transformation of Christ into the Eucharist. In the second, a historical Muslim siege of Madrid is used to assert the victory of Spain against historical and spiritual foes through the Sacrament. The third presents the devotion of a legendary soldier to the Mass as the source of victory in a historical battle. The two autos written on the occasion of the canonization of the medieval King Fernando III combine historical, legendary, and fictitious events to illustrate temporal and eternal victories through the Sacrament. As is evident in a more than superficial study, in these five autos, Calderón modifies history in order to convey an eternal message. / text

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Thesis--Auburn University, 2008. / Abstract. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 104-108).

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Thesis (Ph. D. in Spanish)--Vanderbilt University, Aug. 2009. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2001. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references. Available also in a digital version from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International.