Vaivenes de un tópico: la contraposición corte y aldea en el último Lope de Vega

The disapproval of the court and praise for the village is a leit motiv in elderly Lope de Vega’s several comedies. There we can see how both spaces have a peculiar meaning, and how they always reflect symbolically the same ideas, established by the tradition: while the court represents envy, deception and power, the village is a symbol of peace, transparency, free love, a locus amoenus . Good examples of it are the palatine comedies Del monte sale quien al monte quema, La boba para los otros y discreta para si, Porfiando vence amor, La mayor virtud de un rey o iSi no vieran las mujeres! We will study their characters, their plots, their verses. We will stop essentially in their dramatic structures to try to figure out why these literary spaces turn into an obsession for the last Lope.