Vicente, Gil - Thomas R. Hart (essay date April, 1969)
Thomas R. Hart (essay date April, 1969)
SOURCE: Hart, Thomas R. “The Dramatic Unity of Gil Vicente's Comédia de Rubena.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 46, no. 2 (April, 1969): 97-108.
[In the following essay, Hart refutes the common critical opinion that Vicente's first romantic comedy lacks unity.]
Many readers of Gil Vicente's Comédia de Rubena would doubtless agree with the play's most recent editor, Giuseppe Tavani, that ‘la sua struttura è inconsistente, assolutamente priva di unità; l'azione è frammentaria e contravviene, si direbbe quasi programmaticamente, alle unità di tempo, di luogo e di svolgimento.’1 In particular, ‘la terza scena [potrebbe] essere considerata un autonomo Auto de Cismena’ (15).
Tavani suggests several possible reasons for the play's lack of unity. One is that Rubena, performed in 1521, is Vicente's first attempt at a romantic comedy, a kind of...
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