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A Comparative Study of El Perro del Hortelano in Lope and The Taming of the Shrew in Shakespeare

  • Cross-Cultural Studies
  • 2019, 56(), pp.253-280
  • DOI : 10.21049/ccs.2019.56..253
  • Publisher : Center for Cross Culture Studies
  • Research Area : Humanities > Literature
  • Received : August 10, 2019
  • Accepted : September 3, 2019
  • Published : September 30, 2019

Yoon Yong-wook 1

1한국외국어대학교

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ABSTRACT

The comedies El Perro del Hortelano and The Taming of the Shrew by the leading Spanish and British playwrights Lope and Shakespeare, respectively, contained excellent comedy that matched Olson's theory of comedy, 'Different.' On the other hand, there is a distinction between the two in terms of the message intended to be conveyed to the audience through the comedy. Specifically, in Lope's El perro del Hortelano, there are messages criticizing the unreasonable social custom of birth identity, while in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, only the problem of inequality between men and women is addressed, and no messages of criticism are found. This difference can be found in the argument of the philosopher Feibleman, who stated, 'The drama is mainly fuelling in times of change and reform.' In other words, compared to Spain in the Lope era, which sought change in the face of overall crisis, Britain in the Shakespeare era was a time that laid the foundation for prosperity, not crisis.

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