CHAPTER XXIV.

CALDERON, CONCLUDED.

Comedias de Capa y Espada 381

Antes que todo es mi Dama 382

La Dama Duende 383

La Vanda y la Flor 385

Various Sources of Calderon’s Plots 389

Castilian Tone everywhere 389

Exaggerated Sense of Honor 391

Domestic Authority 392

Duels 393

Immoral Tendency of his Dramas 394

Attacked 394

Defended 394

Calderon’s courtly Tone 395

His Style and Versification 396

His long Success 397

Changes the Drama little 399

But gives it a lofty Tone 400

His Dramatic Character 401

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