15th Century Literature: Poetry, Prose, and Theater
15th Century Literature
The Traditional Lyric
Although increasingly being used, there was still the lyrical role of oral transmission. The carol was used to express emotions and feelings. They were characterized by the use of images of nature, symbolism, repetition, wordplay, and simplicity.
The Court Poetry
Born in Provence, their creators were the trovadores. The subject was love, where the woman was like a divine being to love. The man pays homage to what is called courtly love. The lady’s honesty prevents him from reciprocating his love because of the pain. In the second half of the 15th century, songbooks unfold like that of Estuniga, Baena, the Palace, and the General of Hernando del Castillo. The theme of love is in the songbooks and includes the following poets:
Marquis of Santillana (Inigo de Mendoza)
A powerful aristocrat who wrote Sonnets Done in the Italian Manner, an intended failure of the Italian sonnet.
Juan de Mena
He was secretary of King Juan II, and his writing was complex and dark. His most important work was The Labyrinth of Fortune.
Jorge Manrique
He was devoted to politics and war. His most important work was Couplets to the Death of Don Rodrigo Manrique. Also included are poems and songs of protest like Rebulgo Mingo and Verses of the Province.
The Prose
Where there is didactic prose, the Archpriest of Talavera stands out with his work on Corbacho. Sentimental characters like Prison of Love by Diego de San Pedro and chivalric novels in which the brave hero is perfect and just, have a psychological development in the works and ideals, fighting, and scenarios.
The Theater
The General Dance of Death emphasizes where death invites the company to a dance of death that leads to the end of life. There is also a religious drama that highlights his car by Gomez Manrique of passion and drama, which highlights Gil Vicente’s profanity, Lucas Fernandez, and Torres Navarro.
Comment on Text
A text has fitness when language is a function that can be expressive, appealing, etc., when the communication channel and code are properly selected, when you have a variety of idioms that can be colloquial, cultured, and so on, if you have a variety in speech and may be dialogue, description, narration, exposition, and so on, if it has a genre that may be developing a theme, and so on. It has global consistency if you have an issue or theme and the author’s intention to make the text. It has linear consistency if the item appears in different sequences and if it has a thematic progression, that is, a set that adds something on the subject. It has local coherence if the linguistic elements are interrelated. The cohesion of a text is obtained through the recurrence, which is the repetition of a linguistic element that can be: lexical if the same word is repeated; semantic if the term is associated with its meaning as synonyms and antonyms; or terms when used hypernymy that cover hyponymy to another; or if they use words whose meaning is contained in a hypernym; or by another method such as the substitution that serves to avoid repeating the same word as suceder, pass, etc.; if you use the ellipsis, which is to eliminate the aforementioned parts; and discourse markers as yet, however, to finish, first, and so on.