Ángeles, demonios, fieras: las figuras femeninas en la articulación dramática de El piadoso veneciano

We propose to explore the construction of the three female figures who take centre stage in El piadoso veneciano, Lope de Vega’s novelistic drama, as characters intrinsic to the macro- and microgeneric hybridisation of the play. In the process of transforming the hypotext (novella I,5 of Giraldi Cinzio’s Gli Ecatommiti), all three acquire greater weight in comparison with the Giraldian plot, participating actively in a dramatic articulation that interweaves, at the macrogeneric level, the happy-ending tragedy with comedy, and, at the microgeneric level, novelistic material with pastoral and urban dimensions.