Resumen
Este ensayo analiza la obra Imposible l’hais dejado, pieza teatral satírica-paródica escrita por Eduardo Gómez Gereda y Antonio Soler en 1907. Es un ejemplo notable de la sucesión de obras que utilizaron materia del Don Juan Tenorio de José Zorrilla, y se presenta tanto a los lectores como a su público con objetivos críticos bien claros. Ya que figura en ella la inversión de los papeles tradicionales de género, funciona como comentario de la dinámica sociocultural que existía entre los sexos. Como paralelo a esto, los dramaturgos también incorporan en su creación a figuras y movimientos políticos del día, así aportando otro nivel a la sátira que resulta ser el logro más memorable de la obra.
Abstract
This essay analyzes Eduardo Gómez Gereda and Antonio Soler’s Imposible l’hais dejado, a one-act satire/parody from 1907. It is a notable example of the proliferation of works that appropriated material from José Zorrilla’s Don Juan Tenorio, and it unfolds to both reader and audience with clear critical objectives. Because it features an inversion of the original 1 Jeffrey T. Bersett is Professor of Spanish and Film Studies at Westminster College in Pennsylvania, where he has been a member of the faculty since 2002. He studied at Washington University and the University of Virginia, where he did his Ph.D. work with David Gies. He has also taught at Stanford University and the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research includes work on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish theater, in particular works of parody and satire, and he has published a book and several articles on this topic with reference to Zorrilla’s Don Juan Tenorio. He is currently at work on a second book on appropriations of the Tenorio, as well as projects on costumbrismo in the nineteenth century, and the nonfiction work of Antonio Muñoz Molina. The author wishes to thank Elizabeth Franklin Lewis for having guest-edited this essay.