Abstract
In recent years, criticism of Zorrilla's Don Juan Tenorio has brought to light the importance of writing in the hero's erotic enterprises and has explored it through the lens of contemporary theories of language and textuality. This essay reexamines Zorrilla's fascination with both writing and orality by situating it within its historical context. Specifically, it relates Zorrilla's manipulation of the trope of prosopopeia — a standard feature of the Don Juan legend — to the economic revolution of the 1840s in Spain: Juan de Mendizabal's policy of desamortizacion or disentailment, which sought to break up the land monopolies of the Church and nobility and to open these properties to the market. Through a close reading of Zorrilla's treatment of writing, orality and money, the essay attempts to shed light on the political message of the play.Varios estudios recientes han examinado la funcion de la escritura del don Juan de Zorrilla en relacion con teorias recientes del lenguaje y de la textualidad. Este en...
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