Comedia del valor de las letras y las armas: New Light on the Story of Captive Captain and his Brothers (DQ 1, 37-45)
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https://doi.org/10.3989/anacervantinos.2015.006Keywords:
Cervantes, Arms and Letters, Captive Captain, Theater ModelAbstract
The tale of the captive captain, Ruy Pérez de Viedma, and his brothers, as well as Don Quixote’s discourse on arms and letters which serves as its prologue, have been well studied, but a model combining both parts of this thematic unit found in the first part of Don Quixote has not been previously identified. The anonymous late-sixteenth-century play Comedia del valor de las letras y las armas, here studied as a source for the first time, may well have been known to Cervantes and provides extensive parallels of theme and characterization to Cervantes’ treatment of both Renaissance discourse on preserving peace and the folktale of three brothers and their respective professions. It brings into sharp focus that these chapters resolve the debate between arms and letters in favor of a third element, social power and money.
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