Literatura y crítica
Calderón de la Barca: El gran teatro del mundo
Calderón de la Barca: El gran teatro del mundo
Introducción a 'El Gran Teatro del Mundo', auto sacramental de Pedro Calderón de la Barca, con imágenes de la producción de TVE (1968).
Y una representación completa (Perú, 1997):
Calderón, como Shakespeare, sabía que "es representación la humana vida"—y exprime aquí la teatralidad de la vida real duplicando el drama dentro del drama. Estos dramaturgos, avisados por su experiencia del teatro, usan a éste no como una imagen gratuita, sino extrayendo de la auténtica teatralidad de la vida la potencia de su estética. En su comprensión de que la vida es realmente (y por tanto también figuradamente) dramática, en su saber que no estaban sólo jugando con las palabras, o no más de lo que jugamos en cada escena del drama de la vida real, se anticipan a la sociología dramatística de Erving Goffman y otros, que en nuestros días siguen manteniendo la literalidad de esta proposición, que en la misma medida en que el teatro es vida real, la vida real es teatro.
A estas cuestiones de vida, dramaturgia, y metadrama, siempre dialécticamente implicadas entre sí, dedico mi página titulada EL GRAN TEATRO DEL MUNDO.
Lecture on Spenser and The Faerie Queene (Adam Crowley)
Atentos al Top Ten
Atentos al Top Ten
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This Is My Play's Last Scene
This Is My Play's Last Scene
Un poema de los Holy Sonnets de John Donne, "This Is My Play's Last Scene", que me llama la atención en primer lugar por la metáfora de la vida como teatro, aunque es sólo la primera imagen de muchas que da para el telón final:
This is my play's last scene; here heavens appointMy pilgrimage's last mile; and my race,Idly, yet quickly run, hath this last pace,My span's last inch, my minute's latest point;And gluttonous death will instantly unjointMy body and my soul, and I shall sleep a space;But my'ever-waking part shall see that faceWhose fear already shakes my every joint.Then, as my soul to heaven, her first seat, takes flight,And earth-born body in the earth shall dwell,So fall my sins, that all may have their right,To where they'are bred, and would press me, to hell.Impute me righteous, thus purg'd of evil,For thus I leave the world, the flesh, the devil.
Traducido así a la ligera:
Esta es la última escena de mi drama, aquí el cielo señalala última milla de mi peregrinar, y mi carrera,que he corrido ocioso pero rápido, tiene este último paso,la última pulgada de mi palmo, el último punto de mi minuto;y la muerte glotona al punto desmembrarámi cuerpo y mi alma, y dormiré un rato;pero mi parte insomne verá ese rostroque de miedo me hace temblar ya todo el cuerpo.Entonces, mientras mi alma al cielo, su primer asiento, emprende el vuelo,y el cuerpo nacido terrenal morará en la tierra,que del mismo modo caigan mis pecados, y cada cual tenga lo suyo,a donde se criaron, y a donde querrían llevarme a la fuerza, al infierno.Consideradme recto, purgado así de mal,Puesto que así dejo el mundo, la carne y el demonio.
Go and Catch a Falling Star by John Donne - An Analysis
Relatos y Textos para nada
miércoles, 30 de septiembre de 2015
Relatos y Textos para nada
RELATOS Y TEXTOS PARA NADA
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Sobre estos relatos y textos para nada iba mi primera publicación, también para nada, allá a mediados de los 80: La subjetividad como máscara en los relatos de Beckett.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
lunes, 28 de septiembre de 2015
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a greatly admired alliterative poem from the North-West Midlands, dating from the second half of the 14th cent. (some authorities date it around 1375), the only manuscript of which is the famous Cotton Nero A. X which is also the sole manuscript of *Pearl, *Patience, and *Cleanness. The poem is in 2,530 lines in long-lined alliterative stanzas of varying length, each ending with a *'bob and wheel'. Most modern critics regard the four poems in the manuscript as the work of a single poet; but as far as the interpretation of this poem is concerned, the question of single authorship is largely irrelevant, so different is its subject from the three doctrinal pieces.
The story of the poem is as follows (under the headings of its four 'fitts', narrative divisions).
Fitt 1: Arthur and his court are seated at a New Year's feast in Camelot waiting for a marvel when a huge green man enters, bearing an axe and a holly bough. He challenges a knight to cut his head off on condition that the knight agrees to have his head cut off a year hence. Gawain accepts the challenge and cuts the green knight's head off; the knight picks it up and rides away.
Fitt 2: A year later Gawain sets off to keep his side of the bargain. After riding through grim landscapes in wintry weather, on Christmas Eve Gawain comes upon a beautiful castle where he is graciously received. The lord of the castle makes an agreement with Gawain that each day he himself will hunt in the fields and Gawain in the castle; at the end of the day they will exchange spoils.
Fitt 3: For three consecutive days, the lord hunts and Gawain, famous for his sill and prowess in love, is amorously approached by the beautiful lady of the castle, who gives him one kiss the first day, two on the second, and on the third day three kisses, and a girdle which has magic properties that will save his life. Each evening Gawain exchanges the kisses with his host for the animals slain in the hunt; but in the third evening he keeps the girdle (thus breaking his bargain), to protect him in the imminent meeting with the green knight.
Fitt 4: Gawain is directed to the green knight's chapel where he kneels to receive his blow. Twice the knight feints at him, and the third time he makes a slight cut in Gawain's neck. Then he explains that he is the knight of the castle in a different form, and that the cut in the neck was sustained because of Gawain's infidelity in keeping the girdle. Gawain bitterly curses his failing and the snares of women; but hte green knight applauds him and, on Gawain's return to Arthur's court, they declare that they will all wear a green girdle in honour of his achievement.
The poem may be connected with the founding of the Order of the Garter. The elegance of the construction of the narrative, as well as the vivid language of the poem, are universally admired, and this is agreed to be one of the greatest poems in Middle English. Interpretation of its somewhat enigmatic raison d'être has been more varying; Speirs stressed its connection with some unexpressed archetypal story of seasons and vegetation; John Burrow concentrates on the moral seriousness underlying its colourful romantic exterior; modern critics, such as E. Wilson, see it in relation to the other Christian poems in the manuscript.
Ed. J. R. R. *Tolkien, E. V. Gordon, and N. Davis (2nd edn, 1967); J. A. Burrow, A Reading of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1965); J. Speirs, Medieval English Poetry (1957): 215-51; A. C. Spearing, The Gawain Poet (1970), ch. 5; E. Wilson, The Gawain-Poet (1976); W. R. J. Barron, Trawthe and Treason (1980); D. R. Howard and C. K. Zacher, eds. Critical Studies of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1968).

