El diablo como representación de lo sagrado y lo profano en cuatro comedias del barroco español
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Vásquez Hurtado, David
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Journal article
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Spanish; Castilian
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text (article)
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2017
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Hipogrifo: Revista de Literatura y Cultura del Siglo de Oro ISSN 2328-1308 Vol. 5, Nº. 2, 2017, pags. 581-594
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This paper aims to analyze how the scenic word built the devil's image and the diabolic, in four Spanish Baroque plays: El esclavo del demonio («The Devil's Slave», 1612), by Antonio Mira de Amescua (1577- 1636); El condenado por desconfiado («Damned for Despair», 1635), by Tirso de Molina (1579-1648); El mágico prodigioso («The Wonder-Working Magician», 1637) y El veneno y la triaca («The Poison and the Antidote», 1677) by Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600-1681). In these plays, the devil is a dynamic character who moves between the sacred and the profane dimension in the theatric scene as well as in the human soul.