Il pittore del suo disonore

by Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Scritto nel 1645, Il pittore del suo disonore è una delle opere più famose di Calderón, in cui Don Juan Roca, un pittore che sta invecchiando, è portato ad intraprendere una doppia vendetta quando l'amante della sua giovane sposa, precedentemente creduto annegato in mare, ritorna dal regno dei morti e la rapisce.

Genres: Plays

308 pages, Unknown Binding

About the author

Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Henao was a dramatist of the Spanish Golden Age.

Calderón initiated what has been called the second cycle of Spanish Golden Age theatre. Whereas his predecessor, Lope de Vega, pioneered the dramatic forms and genres of Spanish Golden Age theatre, Calderón polished and perfected them. Whereas Lope's strength lay in the sponteneity and naturalness of his work, Calderón's strength lay in his capacity for poetic beauty, dramatic structure and philosophical depth. Calderón was a perfectionist who often revisited and reworked his plays, even long after they debuted. This perfectionism was not just limited to his own work: many of his plays rework existing plays or scenes by other dramatists, improving their depth, complexity, and unity. (Many European playwrights of the time, such as Molière, Corneille and Shakespeare, reworked old plays in this way.) Calderón excelled above all others in the genre of the "auto sacramental", in which he showed a seemingly inexhaustible capacity to giving new dramatic forms to a given set of theological constructs. Calderón wrote 120 "comedias", 80 "autos sacramentales" and 20 short comedic works called "entremeses"

Reviews

[ᛚᚨᚱᚲᚨ × ᚠᛖᚾᚱᛁᚱ (Semi hiatus) · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lo sanno tutti: l'amore
è temerario, e una colpa
d'amore non ha discolpa
che in quella di non averne.
Chi sbaglia molto ama molto.

[Ana Enriques · Rating 3 out of 5]

Una obra de lectura ágil, interesante para conocer o reconocer las ideas de la época sobre el honor, las cuales prevalecen contra toda lógica y razón. Los personajes actúan de forma predecible, obligados por las convenciones de la época y viven vidas que los hacen miserables en nombre del honor, cuya defensa justifica cualquier cosa.

[Chantal · Rating 3 out of 5]

*3.75 stars*
This was interesting

[Matthew]

Read this in Spanish

[Dísa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very funny, compelling characters but very of the period, not much relevancy to today's time

[jimenaaa · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 pq los finales son siempre muerte y estoy harta, carajo

[Paola (Minpao) · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.75✨

Ni romeo y Julieta tuvo tremendo final 🤨
Serafina reina no te tocaba, nueva obra que me hace ver que todos los males son los hombres.