Vicente, Gil - Thomas R. Hart (essay date 1981)
Thomas R. Hart (essay date 1981)
SOURCE: Hart, Thomas R. “Characterization: Casandra.” In Gil Vicente: Casandra and Don Duardos, pp. 49-63. London England: Grant & Cutler, 1981.
[In the following excerpt, Hart maintains that in the play Casandra Vicente privileges character development over plot events.]
A. A. Parker has observed that the Spanish comedia of the seventeenth century is “essentially a drama of action and not of characterization … The plot and not the characters is the primary thing” (7, 3-4). Our two early sixteenth-century plays by Gil Vicente work rather differently. Dámaso Alonso has contrasted the “lenta matización psicológica” in Vicente's treatment of Don Duardos and Flérida with “los cambios bruscos e infundamentados del teatro de Lope”, suggesting that “aquí, en la expresión, por matices sumamente delicados y pequeños, de las variaciones de un alma es donde está el...
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