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L’impatto della comedia in Francia nel primo Seicento: nuovi personaggi, nuove storie, nuove pratiche drammatiche

  • Enrica Zanin

This article reconsiders the impact of the Spanish comedia on early-seventeenth-century French theatre, arguing that its influence extends well beyond direct translations to a deep reshaping of dramaturgical practice. It traces the diffusion of the so called « pentagonal schema » from Lope de Vega into French comedy and tragedy, especially in Corneille, where it powers action despite classicist demands for unity. By subordinating multiple love plots to a primary through-line, Corneille reframes Aristotelian theory into a two-thread model that heightens uncertainty and spectacle. The study situates these mechanisms within wider European narrative habits yet underscores the comedia’s distinctive role in formal consolidation and stage efficacy.

  • Keywords:
  • Spanish comedia,
  • Pierre Corneille,
  • Pentagonal schema,
  • Galán suelto,
  • classical poetics,
  • Adaptation and reception,
  • Lope de Vega,
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Enrica Zanin

Université de Strasbourg, France - ORCID: 0009-0000-0448-3001

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Chapter Information

Chapter Title

L’impatto della comedia in Francia nel primo Seicento: nuovi personaggi, nuove storie, nuove pratiche drammatiche

Authors

Enrica Zanin

Language

Italian

DOI

10.36253/979-12-215-0857-4.20

Peer Reviewed

Publication Year

2026

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© 2026 Author(s)

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CC BY 4.0

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CC0 1.0

Bibliographic Information

Book Title

La recepción del teatro clásico español en Europa (siglos XVII-XVIII)

Editors

Fausta Antonucci, Salomé Vuelta García

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Number of Pages

300

Publication Year

2026

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© 2026 Author(s)

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CC BY 4.0

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CC0 1.0

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Firenze University Press

DOI

10.36253/979-12-215-0857-4

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979-12-215-0856-7

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979-12-215-0857-4

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Moderna/Comparata

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2704-5641

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2704-565X

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