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Analysis of three Inquisitional dossiers concerning Enriquez, now in Madrid's Archivo Historico Nacional

Antonio Enríquez Gómez was a seventeenth-century Spanish converso (convert), or New Christian, author whose peripatetic life and multiple identities well represent the perilous and sad reality of Spaniards of Jewish descent compelled to live as Christians. This article will present historical background of the converso experience in Spain as a means of contextualizing the subsequent description of Enríquez Gomez's life during the 1600s both in and out of Spain. Analysis of three narratives written in the form of dreams while the author was living as an exile in France will argue that his criticism of invented inquisitions and those individuals who work for them is not an apology for Judaism. Rather, the author's resistance to fictionalized inquisitions is a call to reform certain practices of the Spanish Inquisition, so that Old Christians (those without Jewish or Muslim lineage) and converts alike can live in a society less judgmental of ancestry and more apt to judge people based on the virtue of their actions.

El artículo analiza cómo el tema de la rivalidad amorosa entre dos hermanas se convierte en un lugar común en la comedia española a medida que avanza el siglo XVII. En especial, se observa su presencia en las obras de Calderón y su escuela. Tras un repaso a las comedias más significativas que abordan el tema, se estudia con detalle este esquema argumental en la comedia La presumida y la hermosa de Antonio Enríquez Gómez. En esta comedia se enfrenta una hermana recatada y discreta con otra alocada y hermosa por el amor de un galán. Al final, como ocurre también en algunas comedias de Calderón, triunfa la hermana prudente, es decir, vence la discreción frente a la hermosura.

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