Du drame philosophique à la zarzuela

Calderón was the playwright whose plays were staged most often for most of the XVIlIth century. The analysis of the zarzuela Los portentosos efectos de la naturaleza (1766) shows how Ramón de la Cruz, by adapting the work of Goldoni I portentosi effetti della madre natura, which itself was inspired by an italian remake of La vida es sueño, returned to the source of the text of the comedia and in this way he made it easier for the audiences in Madrid at that time to identify the model of the parody, which turns the hero of the zarzuela into a burlesque replica of Segismundo

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