El prólogo a las Ocho comedias de Cervantes desde el mirador de la práctica autorial lopesca

• Main Author: Jean Canavaggio
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Presses universitaires du Mirail 2010-02-01
• Series: Criticón
• Subjects: Partes de comedias; Ocho comedias y ocho entremeses nuevos; Cervantes Miguel de; Vega Lope de
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/criticon/14439

Cervantes’ theatrical output maintains a complex relationship with the customs of Golden-Age theatre. Amongst the different approaches as regards this relationship, special interest must be given to the prologue to his Ocho comedias y ocho entremeses nuevos (Eight plays and eight new interludes), that were collected in a single volume in the spring of 1615. At a moment in which four of Lope’s Partes had already been published, these practices emanating from the Fénix lead to an editorial style that will last at least until 1647. Arriving one year after the publication of Lope’s Cuarta parte, does Cervantes’ volume adhere to the model found in Lope’s canon or is it markedly different? This article hopes to provide some answers.