Two Cases of «Entremeses» in Lope de Vega’s Comedies: «una acción y entre plebeya gente»

Abstract

This article analyses two cases of comic episodes in Lope de Vega’s comedies and the appropriateness of classifying them as entremeses. The first consists of a scene that is repeated in three early comedies —La ingratitud vengada, El caballero del milagro and El caballero de Illescas—; the second is the relationship between Lope de Rueda’s «Passo quinto» from El deleytoso and a passage from the Arcadia. Two cases, ultimately, that are presented as two ways of approaching the genre of the entremés in Lope de Vega’s oeuvre.