"El asalto de Mastrique": Lope de Vega y la "communitas" militar

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  • Jorge Checa University of California, Santa Barbara

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https://doi.org/10.24201/nrfh.v58i2.990

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Lope de Vega, El asalta a Mastrique, communitas militar, Golden Age literature

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.

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2010-07-01

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Checa, J. (2010). "El asalto de Mastrique": Lope de Vega y la "communitas" militar. Nueva Revista De Filología Hispánica (NRFH), 58(2), 583–617. https://doi.org/10.24201/nrfh.v58i2.990
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