THE PRIVATE SPACE IN LOPE DE VEGA'S ⟪COMEDIA PALATINA⟫

The central objective of these pages is to examine the function and meaning of the interior dramatic spaces in a set of comedias palatinas by Lope de Vega. Spaces such as rooms and halls; bedrooms; chambers and antechambers; toilets and vanities; stages, dressing rooms, stables and gardens are the stage through which the protagonists of these works parade in order to confess their love, arrange revenge and give free rein to their most intimate thoughts and desires. The importance of these spaces will be examined in a corpus that goes through the three great moments of the lopesca dramaturgy, in its tragic aspect -El perseguido, El mayordomo de la duquesa de Amalfi, La locura por la honra, El castigo sin venganza, El juez en su causa- and in its comic aspect, in the analysis of El principe inocente, El marmol de Felisardo, El perro del hortelano, El guante de dona Blanca.