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Call number: LD2668 .T4 1959 M33

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This dissertation explores the influence of European and Mesoamerican traditions of urbanization on the plays of Juan Ruiz de Alarcon, a sixteen- seventeenth-century dramatist born in the Spanish Viceroyalty of New Spain. The objective of this dissertation is to study the analogy between urban designs and their representation in theatre from the Ancient Greece until the Golden Age Spanish Theatre. As we acknowledge the influence of the urban configuration on the mentality of that particular period, we also seek to explain how the surrounding reality becomes like an ideological postulate with the passing of time. By analysing and defining the cities from the Ancient Greece to the period known as the Baroque, we aim at defining the new form taken by their inherent spatial notions when they merge with those of the ancient historic capital of the Mexica empire, that is, Mexico-Tenochtitlan. As the two worlds were coming into contact, the changes as well as the exchange of cultural legacies and urban experiences endowed the author's town of birth with a new way of communicating, which was at the same time both Spanish and non-Spanish. This allowed the author to write plots where the urban setting would not determine all the characters' actions and reactions, as was the case with the Golden Age dramatists in Spain.

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This work focuses on the topic of identity and, particularly, on the study of lies as a component of identity through the analysis of the main character in the comedy La verdad sospechosa , and the Court represented in the play. The text has been divided into two sections: the text's reality and the stories invented by the main character. This distinction serves to establish the relation between the elements of both parts, as well as their consequent influence in the construction of the character's identity. Conditions such as space, time and, particularly, social surrounding are taken into account in the fabrication of lies. The work shows how lying serves as a tool to create, sometimes fictitious but nevertheless useful, routes that help achieve an immersion in the society, even if it seems to go completely against the social values that, on the other hand, helps attain. Through the deconstruction of the character's lies, this work shows how, gradually, the made-up stories assimilate with the reality of the text until they become one with it. This gradual assimilation goes hand in hand with the character's immersion into the community, which includes the learning of social values and the fulfillment of the community's expectations.

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