La controversia sobre la corte en el teatro breve de Luis Vélez de Guevara: dramaturgo y sujeto literario.

Abstract

The courtier’s misery, the servant’s complaint or the petition of favours are present in a wide list of Golden Age authors that portray the court as a toxic environment, in a continuous quarrel that evinces the dearths of daily life, hunger and other misadventures of this world, mainly promoted by greed and ambition. This literary motif already echoed in Classical Antiquity, but, for the research that concerns us, we will focus on its development in 17th century anti-courtly literature, since it was the period when the playwright Luis Velez de Guevara (1579-1644) lived. The Baroque theater had an interesting component of criticism, as it was considered a powerful tool for the transmission of ideas and, therefore, it would be an ideal way to denounce this situation that they could, most probably, personally live and, consequently, report the real face of the court.