The Historical and Literary Perspective of the "Romances Moriscos Novelescos"
1961; American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese; Volume: 44; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/334902
ISSN2153-6414
Autores Tópico(s)Medieval Iberian Studies
Resumomances relativos a la historia de Espafia. The first section, one of the most extensive, is called Romances moriscos novelescos. Although it contains a handful of excellent ballads, such as La morilla burlada, this is one of the dreariest divisions of the collection. For more than a hundred pages, if the reader can endure them all, pseudoMoorish lovers spread their plumes before their ladies, complain and go through almost identical maneuvers from ballad to ballad. In nearly every case the theme is love, the action is slight, ornamental features are predominant, and the sentiments expressed are artificial and formalized. When the section is finished, the reader is apt to agree completely with the anonymous bard of No. 245:
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