No hay burlas con el amor y la culta melindrosa de Calderón a Molière

The aim of this paper is to undertake a reflection on the caricatural character of Quevedo’s culta latiniparla and her inclusion in No hay burlas con el amor, urban comedy by Calderón de la Barca. Successively, the study will open up to a transnational and intertextual approach linked to the reception outside the Iberian borders of the image of the educated woman who boasts a pompous language. In particular, following a series of critical controversies on the possibility that Molière could have been inspired by this play for his work Les femmes savantes, a contrastive analysis will be carried out to assess the real entity of the Calderonian reverberations in Molière’s text, showing both the points of contact and the discrepancies related to the process of reworking of the cliché of the wise and hembrilatina lady.