Utopía, espacios soñados y mito clásico en la Tragicomedia de Los Jardines y Los Campos Sabeos de Feliciana Enríquez de Guzmán

Abstract

The Spanish playwright, Feliciana Enríquez de Guzmán, devoted many years of her life to the composition of a tragicomedy where she defines herself as a defender of the precepts of Greco.Latin theatre. The play takes place in a legendary time where men coexist with the ancient Gods and is used by the author as a reflection of a dream reality, which provides answers to her worries and releases her true ambitions and vital expectations. In the play, the author presents the understanding father and own free will which she never had and the transgression capacity that the society always denied. Thus, the tragicomic world which so well describes the society, the culture and the politics of her days, turns frequently into a distorted image of the daily atmosphere in the Spanish XVII century, by offering an irreverent and amusing view of the classical myth.