Calderon's "La Nave del Mercador": Auto Sacramental

Author

S. Hugh Fitch

Publication Date

8-8-1950

Abstract

The definitions of the Auto sacramental which have been devised over a period of three hundred years, from Lope de Vega to the present day, vary from the strictness of: "el auto sacramental, cuyo tema es exclusivamente el dogma de la presencia eucaristica," to the opposite extreme of "No era esencial al auto la materia eucaristica, ni lo fue nunca, en ninguna epoca de su historia." In order to understand the disparity between these two statements, it will be necessary to review the history of the auto, and to see how it developed in the hands of the master of the genre.

Degree Name

Spanish (MA)

Level of Degree

Masters

Department Name

Spanish and Portuguese

First Committee Member (Chair)

Raymond R. MacCurdy

Second Committee Member

N/A

Third Committee Member

N/A

Language

English

Document Type

Thesis

Recommended Citation

Fitch, S. Hugh. "Calderon's "La Nave del Mercador": Auto Sacramental." (1950). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/span_etds/53