Abstract
In addition to commemorating a historical ephemerides, Lope de Vega’s Elasalto de Mastrique exalts war as an activity that promotes feelings of nationalcohesion and fosters among soldiers something close to what the anthropologistVictor Turner calls communitas. In my article I study several aspectsof this comedia-Lope’s debts with his main source; the interaction at variouslevels of “high” and “low” elements; Alejandro Farnesio heroic characterization.My main goal is to explore how Lope sees in the military communitasdepicted in the play an image of the alleged virtues of the Spanish nation.Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica (1947-), volume 66, 2, July-December 2018, is a semi-annual publication edited by El Colegio de México, Carretera Picacho Ajusco 20, Ampliación Fuentes del Pedregal, Tlalpan, C.P. 14110, Mexico City, Mexico, Tel. (55) 5449-3000, http://nrfh.colmex.mx/index.php/NRFH, nrfh@colmex.mx. Editor: Pedro Martín Butragueño. Assistant editors: Alejandro Rivas and Jesus Jorge Valenzuela. All Rights Reserved: 04-2015-070112341900-203, ISSN (print): 0185-0121, ISSN (electronic): 2448-6558, as registered with the National Copyright Institute. Typographical composition: El Atril Tipográfico. Person in charge of updating this issue: Perla Reyna Muñoz; date of last update: June 26, 2018.
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