Humor in the Autos of Calderon
1956; American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese; Volume: 39; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/334856
ISSN2153-6414
Autores Tópico(s)Spanish Literature and Culture Studies
ResumoIn the autos sacramentales before the time of Calder6n there is considerable humor of a rough and ready variety. For the most part it is generated by peasants who horse around, making cheap jokes, usually about being hungry, and griping about their troubles. These humorous characters are pretty much of a piece, with little or no originality, and few, if any, distinctive characteristics. It is really surprising that Lope de Vega, who reveals a keen sense of humor in his comedias and in them creates genuinely funny characters, should manifest so little of this quality when he wrote autos. One of his comic characters in the autos is Apetito, vestido de loco, who makes cracks, for example, in Las bodas entre el alma y el amor divino about vegetables and fish. In other autos La Gula similarly jokes about food. La Locura, in spite of his name, does not do, or say, very crazy things. Lope's most notable effort in the direction of humor is a la-
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