Es una de las obras que tratan el tema del honor, recurrente en sus piezas (y en las obras de otros escritores de la época) y el de los celos, presente también en otras obras de este escritor. El objetivo principal de este texto es analizar a los personajes cuyas intervenciones son decisivas para el desenlace de la obra. He threatens Ludovico's life unless he complies to kill Mencía by bleeding her to death. Jacinta agrees to let Enrique into the house to see Mencía, because Enrique offers her her freedom in exchange. Etiquetas: Teatro, Drama. The journal accepts essays on literary, linguistic, or cultural topics within the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking worlds. The king makes a wager with him: if Coquín makes him laugh, the king will pay him 100 gold coins, but if he can't, the king will have his teeth pulled. The King, Pedro, does not wish to be detained on his journey to court at Seville, and suggests that the infante's companions, Don Arias and Don Diego, take him to a nearby country house while he continues on to Seville. All Rights Reserved. El medico de su honra/ The physician of his honor. Que sentimientos, disgustos, celos, agravios, sospechas con la mujer, y más propia, aun más que sanan enferman. Título: El médico de su honra / Pedro Calderón de la Barca (en Formato HTML) Autor: Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681; Publicación: Alicante : Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes, 2001; Publicación original: Madrid, Por María de Quiñónez, 1637. He followed the woman into the house before Leonor could stop him, and when Gutierre approached she ordered him to flee. As he now knows the truth, he declares that he wishes to publicly defend her honor, and he and Gutierre draw their swords. Enrique enters and asks that Don Arias be released. The most telling example of the importance of the idea of honor in the Spanish baroque theatre is, with no doubt, The Doctor of his own honor (El medico de su honra), by Calderón de la Barca, which plot turns around the announced death of an innocent lady suspicioned of adultery, just because of an unhappy sets of events. Sure that his wife has been unfaithful to him with the Prince, Gutierre appeals to the King and informs him that his honour is in jeopardy. Los personajes. Hispanófila Gutierre goes to search the room, and Jacinta asks her mistress why she didn't just tell Gutierre the truth. What he is not aware of however is that Mencía is not guilty of any wrongdoing with Enrique and she tried to dismiss him when he appeared at the house. He leaves, and after a conversation between Enrique and Coquín, Don Arias, Don Diego, and Don Gutierre enter. Coquín accepts the wager, mostly out of fear of the king's wrath should he refuse. EL MÉDICO DE SU HONRA AS TRAGEDY by Alexander A. 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