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The status of La hija del aire, Parts I and II, as a tragedy is no longer questioned. Modern critics have rectified Menéndez Pelayo's omission of the play from his list of Calderonian tragedies. But they have also, possibly because they have not gone very deeply into the question, unreservedly presented the work as a classical-type tragedy. This view is partly true but it is not the whole truth. In this paper, therefore, I propose to examine the traditional tragic elements in the two plays in order, firstly, to suggest how much there is which does not conform to this pattern, and, secondly, to consider, if the first point is established, what significance there is in the juxtapostion of the tragic and the non-tragic.