Las mocedades del Cid

by Guillén de Castro, Luciano García Lorenzo (Editor)

En la obra se dramatiza un asunto épico conocido, se establece un conflicto entre amor y honra, se desarrolla con trazos personales el carácter de doña Jimena y, sobre todo, se hace un uso extraordinariamente hábil del Romancero, cuyos poemas se van hilvanando al hilo del tema a medida que la comedia busca su final.

Genres: Drama, Classics, Poetry, Spanish Literature, Theatre

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1605

About the author

Guillén de Castro y Bellvís

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Reviews

[Fonch · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ladies and gentlemen, the critique of this book also has history. I wanted to read Guillén de Castro's work for a long time. I've always been a lover but of the Cid, although I don't dislike it if of your time. El Cid, so that non-Spanish users can understand me. It is one of the icons of Spain. Just as Joan of Arc is in France, as he writes in the play of the writer Irene Maciá https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4... The Cid embodies one of the myths of the history of Spain, and when the country is in crisis of identity as it is now in the hands of people hostile to its history, traditions, or religion. His figure is attacked, or demonized, and instead when there is an adequate moral environment his figure is insalated. This cult of ancestors, the divine Chesty defined it as The Democracy of the Dead. It is not the only time this time when the Cid has been demonized, already after our country suffered the disaster of '98 with the loss of Cuba, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico at the hands of the United States emerged a nihilism and a current critique against the religion and traditions of the country embodied by its intellectuality (that is said in the sense of Paul Johnson, so that in the Bible so it must be understood in the worst senses https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... just as in these times a heterogeneous current composed of Republicans, socialists-communists, Catalan and Basque independenceists and regenerationists demonized Castile and the symbol of his power the Cid. The Aragonese regenerationist Joaquín Costa said that the seven padlocks of the Cid tomb had to be closed, and renege from our splendid past, and imitate the other European nations, and this is intended to deny the Christian essence of our country. Yet there were always people, who thought that Spain could be among the most advanced nations in Europe without denying its history, traditions, and religion. Because for a civilization, country or people to feque, it is necessary for him to hate everything that made him great. It is true that this current taken to extremes can lead to another of the great evils of the nineteenth century, twentieth century nationalism, but as I have explained in other interventions of mine, a balance between nihilism and nationalism must almost always be sought. One of the great scholars of the Cid is Ramón Menéndez Pidal, who studied the singing of the mester of minstrel the poem of Mío Cid https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... in fact on Saturday on 13 TV are going to cast the mythical film produced by Samuel Bronston and directed by Anthony Mann El Cid. One of the best films in history, although I liked The Fall of the Roman Empire better https://www.filmaffinity.com/es/film8... Blas de Infante and the ominous Goytisolo among many others. If there was invasion of the Muslims. Before they were used in the 711 of the division of the Visigoth factions of the sons of Witiza (of the lineage of Wamba) and of Rodrigo to stay in the territory. The battles of Gaudete, and the Black Lagoon and the successive conquests of cities made by Tariq, Musa, and his son Abdel Aziz show that there was conquest. Let us already remember that in the life of Muhammad Christian kingdoms was attacked, and that already Caliph Omar snatched from the sick emperor Heraklio the possessions of Byzantium from North Africa to Syria in the hapless battle of Yarmuk with the help of sleaphonous and heretical Christians. In the case of Spain we will see how this phenomenon will occur taking advantage of the warcivilism of the Goths. Until 750 Spain was Emirate dependent on the Umayyans, after the dethring of the Umayyans by the Abassies the last member of the Abderraman family seized what the Muslims owned. In 929 The Caliph Abderraman after defeating the rebels of Omar ben Hafsun (rather his descendants) proclaimed himself caliph, but the caliphate lasted only a century. After the death of Hayib or Vizier the capable Almanzor and his son the Islamic world suffered a crisis, which made the Christian kingdoms become important. Until 1031 the different Christian focoes the astur-leones that was born of the Christian victory in Covadonga in the 722 achieved by the Spatario of King Rodrigo Don Pelayo, the Navarro with Iñigo Arista, then due to the frank expansion with Carlo Magno a territory is born called the Hispanic Brand, which you will be the germ of the county of Barcelona. In the 10th century Castile was born with Ferrán González, who will be swallowed up by Navarra on the death of the last count of Castile, but Castile will revive on several occasions. Then there is the Aragonese spotlight, which will be born when Sancho III Garcés the eldest, who owned everything but Barcelona, and the kingdom of León dies and divides the kingdoms among his sons leaving Navarre to García, Ferdinand the king who serves the Cid who will conquer the lion to Bermudo el g and Aragon will go to a natural son of Sancho Garcés III to Ramiro I. . This is in short the context in which the Cid will be found with fragmented but increasingly strong Christian kingdoms, and a series of disunited and divided Muslim taifas that will face each other. So now Castile is stronger and can cope with Muslim taifas. Guillén de Castro takes the youth of the Cid, and despite some anachronism is faithful to the story begins with a Cid that will be named knight sponsored by Queen Doña Sancha (important character since she was daughter of the kings of León and thanks to her wedding to Fernando the Ma this can legitimize the conquest of Leon) and Doña Urraca my favorite character. This drama follows the rules of time and the scenarios of the sixteenth and seventeenth century in Spain enjoying three acts. The work of Guillén de Castro that will be very imitated in this case by Pierre Corneille. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... , who due to his Breton blood was heavily influenced by Spanish culture, and he himself belonged to the Devot party whose leader was Queen Maria de Mediccis and who wanted the alliance with Spain. In the opposing faction were Louis XIII, Luynes and then Richelieu who would change sides, who started out as the Devot party and then was the leader of the anti-Spanish and anti-Habsburg faction with a 1st program The Subjugation of the Nobility, 2nd The Annihilation of the Calvinist Huguenot Party (this was very positive because it guaranteed the French Catholicity and the implementation of the Council of Trent in France, while in the case of Henry IV it had been a ploy, to come to power) and 3rd France's predominance over foreign monarchies (which in practice was an attempt to annihilate the Habsburgs and this was no longer so good because it ensured the survival and hegemony of Protestantism in northern Europe). In fact "El Cid" was written in a period in the War of the 30 years when Spain was about to take Paris and its premiere infuriated Richelieu, who also had his artistic concerns and disagreed and was jealous of Pierre Corneille. However, despite the fame of his "Cid" the great truth is that it was rubbish, and antihistoric, painting us a Cid, which conquers Seville. I personally, despite being a Jansenist, like Racine much more (who is Corneille's great rival), though he sympathized with Corneille's political views. https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... In Guillen de Castro's work of course there are anachronisms a bishop of Plasencia. I believe, that it was conquered by the Lion King Alfonso IX of León, but, anyway. Fernando and Doña Sancha's other children are also missed in history by Alfonso (who, on the death of Fernando I will inherit León), García (who inherits Galicia) and Doña Elvira who stays with Toro even though an Elvira comes out, this is a maid of Doña Jimena. The first act is the worst, and don Rodrigo's struggle to rehabilitate his father Diego Laínez's honor against Lord of Gormaz the Count Lozano is more legendary than historical (in Anthony Mann's film it will be because the Cid liberates some Moorish kings. Here it is to see who will exercise the guardianship of the heir Don Sancho, future Sancho II the fort married to Alberta a Saxon princess, who does not appear here). One of the characteristics of the Baroque theater, whose hallmark will be Pedro Calderón https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... of Barca is the difficult coexistence between honor-duty and love or the interests of the character. Always prevailing first. In this case, the filial piety (also on this is also based the drama of Corneille mentioned above) and the honor against love. The first part is the loosest with almost monosylabic answers, and with surprise . It is in the second and third act that the greatness of the work is shown. Psychologically both Jimena and the Cid are very well done. The more he tries to take down the Cid, the more Doña Jimena loves him. In addition, unlike corneille's peravisoseur Urraca. This Magpie is more believable as Jimena tries to take down the Cid Doña Urraca that despite being thirteen years older than the Cid (she is in love with the Cid) I must break a spear in this case by Doña Urraca, saying that I do not see wrong that an older woman falls in love with someone else young. . I must admit that one of the reasons I want to read this play is because of the character of Doña Urraca, which is one of my favorites. From this character it has been said that he maintained an incestuous relationship with his brother Alfonso VI, and that he was rebuked by Pope Gregory VII and that he co-ruled with him until the year 1080. That Alfonso VI came to marry six women during his reign, including Zaida a Muslim conversa who gave his son Sancho Alfonsez dead in Ucles. The only thing about all this is that while Sancho II took all the territory from his brothers Urraca confronted him and Zamora turned to Bellido Dolfos to stab the King and end the invasion. . The truth is that perhaps with Alfonso VI that would conquer Toledo did not advance as much as it had advanced with Sancho II, but it was a government that opened Castile to Europe, and introduced the Cluniac reform and the adoption of carolina writing. Moreover, despite the Threat Almorávide did not lose what he won despite the correctives of Sagrajas and Ucles. Let us remember that only the Cid was able to defeat the mighty Alravavid army at that time. But returning to Urraca all the black legend around her ambitious nature, her incestuous loves with the sensual Don Alfonso (he was also said to have slept with his sister Doña Elvira, and Frank Baer came to say in "The Bridge of Alcántara" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6... who slept with black slaves sent by the Muslim kingdoms), but most likely that Doña Urraca was none of that, and if a very pious woman who decorated with her jewels the chalice of Doña Urraca https://www.religionenlibertad.com/cu... . All in all I like the Magpie of the black legend is delicious a mixture of Barbara Stamwyck with a touch of the Cersei Lannister of Game of Thrones (I have no midpoint, or I like very holy or very sinful women) but unlike Martin's saga this was a time of a benign and luminous theocracy and despite the horrifying sins the tone of that time rather than the secular amorality of George R.R. Martin is reminiscent of the Sigrid Undset saga "Kristin Lavransdotter" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6... In fact people committed horrible cre'menes. The enemy of cid Berenguer Ramón II Count of Barcelona (who does not come out in this story came to kill his brother and departed on pilgrimage). We see that Doña Urraca has a vital prominence, because she has to fight with her brother Sancho II, who remains as a vehemented and angry character, who does not respect filial duty, and fight with Doña Jimena for the love of the Cid (which is most likely legendary as most of what counts is magnificent play). Regarding Urraca we have the novel of Amalia Gómez "Urraca señora de Zamora" (I did not like much) by Amalia Gómez https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... and the trilogy of Rafael Pérez and Pérez dedicated to Doña Urraca called saga of the eternal https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... (they were romantic novels, which were success in their time). ). I can only say one thing will succeed in one thing, but I will fail in the other. I liked the exploits of the Cid very much, and as it gets its nickname, but what I liked the most is the history of the Gafo, where it is shown that at that time it is not enough to be a warlord, swordsman, or a conqueror, but to be the best Christian. The part of the Gafo, which I will not unveil reminded me of one of the favorite books of my friend Professor Manuel Alfonseca https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... "The search for the Grail" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... you know that three gentlemen were worthy to find the Grail Galahad for its purity (the best arturate knight),Perceval for his innocence, but the most meritorious case is that of Bors that is a bad beast, and relentless warrior. Of the three this has greater merit, because he was not a ducho man in spiritual combat, but for the Grail he trained to be a Christian knight and triumphed in his target as the Cid with the Gafo. Something I hope you've heard about the Montanellian circle that Reverte runs, and bet stakes for a more Christian Cid, for him and for others he's a mercenary, and someone who just wanted to be king. It is possible that El Cid wanted to be king and revive the dream of Teodomiro (who attempted in the 8th century a focus of failed resistance in Tudmir, because his heirs converted to Islam), but as King David never fought against his king even if he did not support it , and when she conquered Valencia he put it under the control of Alfonso VI. So the Cid is not just a Machiavellian and post-gramscina creature, it's a good vassal that would have deserved to have a better king.

[Sandra · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fue un placer reencontrarme con el Cid.

[Ana Enriques · Rating 4 out of 5]

Una lectura atrapante, quizá no tanto por el tema como por la musicalidad que le brinda el hecho de estar escrita en verso. Para mí, que no estoy demasiado informada en cuanto a la figura del Cid, resultó una buena manera de adentrarme en su leyenda. Si bien no siento inclinación por la temática de la honra, me parece interesante que la tensión entre el propio sentimiento y la recuperación de la honra se trate también desde el punto de vista de una mujer, Ximena en este caso.

[Jose Antonio · Rating 4 out of 5]

La lectura de "el Cid" de Corneille me llevó a este clásico de nuestro siglo de Oro: en realidad Corneille adapta al modo francés a Guillén de Castro. Ni qué decir tiene que me parece muy superior el texto de nuestro dramaturgo valenciano. Está escrita en un verso musical y ligero que se lee con fluidez tantos siglos después de su redacción (supuestamente es contemporánea de Lope y de El Quijote, es de 1618 su edición impresa). Creo que no tiene que envidiarle nada al Fénix de los Ingenios ni a Corneille. Es curioso que Guillén de Castro utiliza material reciclado: transcribe, modificándolos sutilmente, varios romances sobre el Cid que eran conocidos en la época. En la edición de la Editorial Crítica los incluyen en un apéndice muy de agradecer. La historia del amor imposible del Cid veinteañero con Ximena se cruza con las hazañas de armas contra los "moros", el lance de honor en defensa de su padre abofeteado por el que hubiera sido su suegro (el Conde de Orgaz) y el coqueteo de la infanta Urraca con el apuesto Don Rodrigo.
Llama la atención el intento hagiográfico de Guillén de Castro, que convierte al Cid heroico de la leyenda medieval en un caballero cristiano, piadoso y misericordioso con los desfavorecidos de la fortuna. La escena del gafo (leproso) rechazado por sus soldados que lo evitan asqueados y es amparado por El Cid hasta incluso compartir plato y lecho con él, es sintomática de esta idea. Guillén crea un arquetipo de caballero cristiano ideal.
Es de agradecer una versión crítica con notas explicativas de términos en desuso y aclaración de versos oscuros. Recomendables la de Cátedra y la de Crítica (he manejado ambas).

[Bobi · Rating 4 out of 5]

The inspiration behind Pierre Corneille's Le Cid, Las mocedades del Cid by Guillén de Castro exhibits a lot of honour, smooth verses and a character of two that are actually hardly on the flat side. The former is rather blurry to me in turns of plot and ideas, but I remember that both handled really well the character of Jimena, Rodrigo/El Cid's fiancee of sorts in these plays that is split between the love for her father and the love for Rodrigo who, although took her father's life, did it so in order to regain his own father's honour. The comedy did at no time bore me and upon completion I found myself quite content with it. Worth a shot if one is interested in Spanish theater, their Baroque period or enjoys improving their Spanish skills via literature instead of solely resolving to the classroom.

[Sofía · Rating 4 out of 5]

Jesús mil veces !! Jimena te amo

[vicks · Rating 4 out of 5]

estaría bien que en las clases de lengua castellana se vieran las obras canónicas del cid, que nada les tienen que envidiar a muchas otras...

[Susana]

Mi edición es de Cátedra, 1982.
ISBN: 84-376-0132-0

[Chimista · Rating 3 out of 5]

Drama histórico sobre la juventud de Rodrigo. Honor (casi calderoniano), dilemas amorosos, celos, intrigas palaciegas, muertes, profecías. El personaje del Cid (buen caballero cristiano) resulta demasiado plano, como es propio de un héroe épico tradicional, y es sometido por todos (su padre, el Rey, un leproso, Ximena) a diversas pruebas de las que sale victorioso. Más complejo es el personaje del príncipe Don Sancho, impetuoso y marcado por una profecía que teme. De lectura fácil, he tenido la sensación de tener delante algo mucho más reciente o, incluso, una recopilación de romances históricos sobre el tema, a los que debe mucho, pues recrea situaciones que ya habían aparecido en ellos. El juego escénico es abundante, con muchos apartes y cambios de personajes y de escenarios. Al final, todo se resuelve con un ingenioso truco. Se lee con agrado.

[Sam · Rating 3 out of 5]

This play describes the early life of the Cid, culminating with his marriage to Ximena. Basically the Cid owns and wins over everyone that tries to impede him.