De venta en venta hasta El Quijote. Un viaje europeo por la literatura de Mesón

Abstract

On these pages travel from the Canterbury Tales to the Quijote going from inn to inn throughout a European literary geography. We stop and lodge in the italian series of novelle (Sacchetti, Bandello), in the Chevalry Poems of the Renaissance (Pulci, Ariosto), in the Sixteenth Century theatre (from Gil Vicente to Lope de Rueda and the Intronati di Siena), in the Comedia Nueva and especially in the comedias de meson de Lope de Vega, in the Elizabethan Theatre (Shakesperare above all), in the Guzmán de Alfarache, in La ilustre fregona (the novel and also the commedy), and so on until the Quijote, where the multiple experience of inns and roads is closely examined. At every stop I reflecton the changing sense of the inn as the stage where a whole discourse on life and litterature is being shaped. In the particular case of Don Quijote, a real culmination point of all that european journey, the inn manages to gather a multiplicity of meanings that rank it with other great cultural instruments: the street, the book, the forum, the theatre.