Literary Criticism (1400-1800)

Molina, Tirso de | Otis H. Green (essay date 1936)

Otis H. Green (essay date 1936)

SOURCE: Green, Otis H. “Notes on the Pizarro Trilogy of Tirso de Molina.” Hispanic Review 4, No. 3 (July 1936): 201-25.

[In the following essay, Green argues that Tirso's trilogy Las hazañas de los Pizarros is designed to rehabilitate the family name of the Pizarros, principal conquerors of Peru.]

The reader of the three plays which comprise Tirso's trilogy Las hazañas de los Pizarros1 is at once struck by the fact that the historical material is treated in a manner differing widely from that employed in La prudencia en la mujer.2 As Hartzenbusch remarked in 1842,

… son tres comedias en que está compendiada la historia del conquistador del Perú y la de sus hermanos Hernando y Gonzalo: la del último está muy desfigurada, y en los tres dramas se descubre el empeño de engrandecer a esta ilustre familia más de lo que necesita y más de...

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