The Function of Portraits and Metatheater as Microdrama in the Comedia.
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This essay examines the function of portraits and metatheatrical situations, which in some cases, form microdramas. First, metatheater as a dramatic device will be explained, in terms of functions and subcategories, according to recent academic research, including that of Lionel Abel, Kate Flaherty, Richard Hornby, Manfred Pfister, Alejandro Paredes, Marnie Lange Roodi, and Bruce Wardropper. Second, the comedias El vergonzoso en palacio (Tirso de Molina), and El pintor de su deshonra (Calderón), will be analyzed, with specific attention to the use of the portrait as dramatic device, which sometimes creates a microdrama, and the multiple metatheatrical situations in the plays, focusing especially on the situations that are actually microdramas. Here, important research on these comedias will be quoted, for example, the academic work from Manuel Sito Alba, Jane Albrecht, Laura Bass, Raymond Conlon, Clark Colahan, David Darst, Frederick de Armas, and Susan Fischer. Ultimately, the important scenes with portraits and the significant metatheatrical situations are shown to be microdramas, and these microdramas help to establish the actor-spectator relationship. Without the use of portraits, metatheater, and microdrama, these two comedias would not be able to develop the dramatic action, the tension would not grow, and the spectators would not be pulled into the dramatic world.
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