Abstract:

To understand how space contributed to the imperialization of history in Lope’s comedias, this essay focuses on the relation between monarchy and territory in El mejor alcalde, el rey. In this play Lope makes a twelfth-century king, Alfonso VI of León and Castile, embody the ideal of universal monarchy embraced by the Habsburgs. In turn, he depicts the relation between metropolitan León and remote Galicia in the same terms he used a few years earlier in his “American plays” to portray conquest in the New World. By adopting this two-pronged strategy, Lope presents an image of the past that coheres with the imperial present and that reinforces the claims by the Spanish Habsburgs to universal monarchy.

摘要：

为了理解空间如何促进洛佩的喜剧中的历史的非常规性，本文着重讨论埃尔·艾哈迈德·阿尔卡尔德（El mejor alcalde）的君主制与领土之间的关系。在这部戏中，洛佩（Lope）成为十二世纪的国王，莱昂和卡斯蒂利亚的阿方索六世，体现了哈布斯堡王朝所拥护的君主专制的理想。反过来，他用几年前在他的“美国剧本”中描绘征服新世界的方式描述了大都市莱昂和偏远加利西亚之间的关系。通过采取这种两管齐下的策略，洛佩展现了过去与帝国时代相融合的形象，并加强了西班牙哈布斯堡王朝对君主专制的主张。