On a Strange Melancholy: Drinking and Eating Gold in Lope de Vega’s "La Dorotea"Lope de Vega frequently makes use of melancholy characters, as well as conventional representations of melancholy, whose features combine elements taken from popular culture and from traditional learned medical and philosophical sources. His capacity for making the most of the melancholy obsessions of his time is revealed very clearly in "La Dorotea", where he develops a topic that was much in fashion – gold as an antidote for melancholy – whilst giving a new twist to the key lexeme gold ("oro"), ensconced within the name of the protagonist (Dorotea) and shining forth in the riches derived from America by Don Bela. Echoes of hermetic symbolism, as well as learned and popular beliefs, resound on the stage of this “prose drama”. Lope renews outworn concepts, heightens their tone, plays ingeniously and ambiguously with the dual implications of the solar metal, drinkable gold, a potent antidote for melancholy and a symbol of feminine greed.De una extraña melancolía: beber y tomar oro en la "Dorotea" de Lope de VegaEn numerosas ocasiones Lope de Vega lleva a sus obras personajes melancólicos y representaciones convencionales de la melancolía cuyos rasgos aúnan elementos de la cultura popular con otros de la más docta tradición médica y filosófica. Su habilidad para sacar partido de las obsesiones melancólicas de la época se manifiesta en “La Dorotea” de un modo especial. En esta obra Lope escenifica un tema de moda: el oro como antídoto contra la melancolía, pero aprovecha de modo novedoso el lexema clave “oro”, velado en el nombre de la protagonista y fulgurante en la riqueza americana de don Bela. Los ecos de la simbología hermética y las creencias cultas y populares resuenan en el escenario de la «acción en prosa». El Fénix renueva los manidos conceptos, realza los tonos, juega ingeniosa y ambiguamente con el doble valor del solar metal, el oro potable, potente antídoto contra la melancolía y símbolo de la avidez femenina.

De una extraña melancolía: beber y tomar oro en la "Dorotea" de Lope de Vega

GAMBIN, Felice
2010-01-01

Abstract

On a Strange Melancholy: Drinking and Eating Gold in Lope de Vega’s "La Dorotea"Lope de Vega frequently makes use of melancholy characters, as well as conventional representations of melancholy, whose features combine elements taken from popular culture and from traditional learned medical and philosophical sources. His capacity for making the most of the melancholy obsessions of his time is revealed very clearly in "La Dorotea", where he develops a topic that was much in fashion – gold as an antidote for melancholy – whilst giving a new twist to the key lexeme gold ("oro"), ensconced within the name of the protagonist (Dorotea) and shining forth in the riches derived from America by Don Bela. Echoes of hermetic symbolism, as well as learned and popular beliefs, resound on the stage of this “prose drama”. Lope renews outworn concepts, heightens their tone, plays ingeniously and ambiguously with the dual implications of the solar metal, drinkable gold, a potent antidote for melancholy and a symbol of feminine greed.De una extraña melancolía: beber y tomar oro en la "Dorotea" de Lope de VegaEn numerosas ocasiones Lope de Vega lleva a sus obras personajes melancólicos y representaciones convencionales de la melancolía cuyos rasgos aúnan elementos de la cultura popular con otros de la más docta tradición médica y filosófica. Su habilidad para sacar partido de las obsesiones melancólicas de la época se manifiesta en “La Dorotea” de un modo especial. En esta obra Lope escenifica un tema de moda: el oro como antídoto contra la melancolía, pero aprovecha de modo novedoso el lexema clave “oro”, velado en el nombre de la protagonista y fulgurante en la riqueza americana de don Bela. Los ecos de la simbología hermética y las creencias cultas y populares resuenan en el escenario de la «acción en prosa». El Fénix renueva los manidos conceptos, realza los tonos, juega ingeniosa y ambiguamente con el doble valor del solar metal, el oro potable, potente antídoto contra la melancolía y símbolo de la avidez femenina.
2010
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Palabras claveLope de Vega; "La Dorotea"; antídoto contra la melancolía; oro potable e ingerible; codicia femenina.Key wordsLope de Vega; antidote for melancholy; drinkable and edible gold; feminine greed.
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