Emblematic Literature in the Comedia de Magia of the 18th. dentury. Scenic emblems in El Mágico de Salerno, Pedro Vayalarde, by Juan Salvo y Vela
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The comedia de magia is the most important and distinctive theatrical genre of the eighteenth century in Spain. Those comedies are spectacular performances whose verbal and visual discourses create complex scenic emblems based on the best known books of emblems of the time. In this paper we analyze some scenes of one of the most popular series of comedias de magia, El mágico de Salerno, Pedro Vayalarde, by Juan Salvo y Vela, trying to decode the cryptic messages that, for a couple of centuries, mistook criticism
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