L'immagine mariana nella comedia nueva

Abstract

Comedia Nueva is not really a religious genre. Thus the presence of christian subjects in this kind of plays offer us many consideration about the writers and their audience in Spain of the Golden Century. In our work we studied three Marian Plays of three different writers. We put our attention on the sacred images and their cults, on the way their veneration take place in the Theatre and the manners of the writers. The object of our study has been the drama Origen, perdida y restauracion de la Virgen del Sagrario written by Calderon de la Barca, the play Origen de Nuestra Senora de las Angustias by the hardly known Antonio Fajardo y Acevedo and Nuestra Senora de Atocha composed by Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla.