El pintor de su deshonra
El pintor de su deshonra ("The Painter of His Own Dishonor"), sometimes known as El pintor ("The Painter"), is a 1640s[1] play of the Spanish Golden Age theatre by Pedro Calderón de la Barca.[2] It is one of the author's three famous wife-murder plays, along with A secreto agravio, secreta venganza ("Secret Vengeance for Secret Insult") and El médico de su honra ("The Physician of His Own Honor"), where private revenge of an aggrieved husband, in this case a painter by the name of Juan Roca, ultimately becomes very public.[3] It has been translated into English several times, notably (and freely) by Edward FitzGerald.
References
- ^ Cruickshank, Don W. (2009). Don Pedro Calderón. Cambridge University Press. p. 285. ISBN 978-1-107-41257-6.
- ^ Jonathan Thacker A Companion to Golden Age Theatre p. 102 "El pintor is a particularly rich play"
- ^ Jeremy Robbin The Challenges of Uncertainty p. 123 "the irony of Calderon's three famous wife-murder plays (A secreto agravio, El medico and El pintor) is that private revenge ends up being made public"