Courtly Jokes in The Physician of His Honour: More About the Bet between the Buffoon Coquín and the King Don Pedro

Authors

  • Adrián J. Sáez CEA-Université de Neuchâtel Institut de langue et littérature hispaniques Espace Louis-Agassiz 1 CH - 2000 Neuchâtel

Keywords:

Pedro Calderón de la Barca×, The Physician of His Honour, comic character×, Coquín, comicalness, ; generic conventions, jestery

Abstract

Many of the readings of Calderón’s The Physician of His Honour has focused on the function of the comical character Coquín in the dominant serious atmosphere, and specially on the teeth’s bet with the king don Pedro, which has produced some erotic interpretations that we may examine. This joke as well as the general range and sense of the comicalness in the play makes only sense in the light of the bufonesque and courtly tradition, which is based on a concept of stupid and violent humor, at the same time defined in the perfect imbrication of laugh in Calderón’s tragedies.

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Published

2014-06-03

Issue

No. 5 (2014)

Section

ARTICLES

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Courtly Jokes in The Physician of His Honour: More About the Bet between the Buffoon Coquín and the King Don Pedro. (2014). Castilla. Estudios De Literatura, 5, 267-283. https://revistas.uva.es/index.php/castilla/article/view/224