Tirso de Molina | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 40 pages of analysis & critique of Tirso de Molina.

Tirso de Molina | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 40 pages of analysis & critique of Tirso de Molina.
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SOURCE: Green, Otis H. “Notes on the Pizarro Trilogy of Tirso de Molina.” Hispanic Review 4, No. 3 (July 1936): 201-25.

In the following essay, Green argues that Tirso's trilogy Las hazañas de los Pizarros is designed to rehabilitate the family name of the Pizarros, principal conquerors of Peru.

The reader of the three plays which comprise Tirso's trilogy Las hazañas de los Pizarros1 is at once struck by the fact that the historical material is treated in a manner differing widely from that employed in La prudencia en la mujer.2 As Hartzenbusch remarked in 1842,

… son tres comedias en que está compendiada la historia del conquistador del Perú y la de sus hermanos Hernando y Gonzalo: la del último está muy desfigurada, y en los tres dramas se descubre el empeño de engrandecer a esta ilustre familia más de lo que necesita y más de lo...

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