El mercurio galante

Pedro de Peralta Barnuevo
EL MERCURIO GALANTE

AÑO PUBLICADO:
Performed in 1720

PREGUNTAS ANTERIORES DE LOS COMPS:
Elija uno de los personajes alegóricos de El mercurio galante y meditesobre su importancia para la forma y el contenido de la obra. (2004)

VIDA DEL AUTOR Y CONTEXTO HISTÓRICO/ LITERARIO:
Pedro de Peralta Barnuevo (1663-1743)

PERSONAJES:

Mercurio: embajador deJove, diputado de la feria de amor
Una náyada: “nuncia del placer y mensajera del gozo”

Galan 1: hombre quiteño
Dama 1: mujer tracista

Galan 2: un minero
Dama 2: mujer codiciosa

Galan 3:hombre linajudo
Dama 3: mujer presumida

Galan 4: hombre lindo
Dama 4: mujer boba

Galan 5: hombre taimado
Dama 5: mujer discreta

ESTRUCTURA NARRATIVA:
El Mercurio galante is an operetta meantto be sung and recited to the accompaniment of instruments. It´s relatively short, and its organizing principal is the pair (Mercurio´s “pair” is la náyada, and there is a dama for each galan).APUNTES DE UN ARTÍCULO:
(from Encyclopaedia Britannica, of all places)

In Lima the dramas of Pedro de Peralta Barnuevo ranged from adaptations of French Neoclassical plays to librettos for operasat the viceregal palace. A mathematician, poet, attorney, accountant, and historian, Peralta dazzled European visitors to Lima. La Rodoguna (written about 1719) is a free adaptation of PierreCorneille's drama Rodogune (the name of the play's heroine); it is more Neoclassical than Peralta's occasional plays. The best of the latter is El Mercurio galante (“The Gallant Mercury”), an operettaperformed in 1720 between the acts of Afectos vencen finezas (“Feelings Conquer Finery”). A spoof of the courting devices of Spaniards from different kingdoms, El Mercurio galante was Peralta's rejoinder tothe tales of Spanish suitors and seductresses published in the lighthearted Parisian magazine Mercure galant.

APUNTES DE LECTURA:

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