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Keywords
Comedia del Siglo de Oro, Melancolía, Burla, Golden Age comedy, Melancholy, Mockery
Abstract
Melancholy appears in different contexts and functions during the Golden Age, sometimes as a true disease or morbid condition and other times as pretext to articulate ingenious plots. The chosen variant is related to serious or comic dramatic subgenres. It is necessary to analyze the perspectives of melancholic or supposedly melancholic agents to perceive whether the subject is seriously or jokingly observed.
Note
Esta publicación se enmarca en el proyecto FFI2017-82532-P, Identidades y alteridades. La burla como diversión y arma social en la literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro, Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades-Agencia Estatal de Investigación del Gobierno de España (MICINN/AEI, FEDER, UE).