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Jorge Ferreira Barrocal
This essay ponders and contextualizes one of the most problematic comic characters found in the Spanish comedia de santosor comedia hagiográfica: Zurdo, the gracioso in Andrés de Claramonte’s Púsoseme el sol, saliome la luna. Claramonte’s drama adds new sexual intrigue to the already salacious elements found in the legend of Saint Theodora of Alexandria, a saint and martyr from the fifth century. Claramonte’s Zurdo displays such stock elements of the gracioso as witty, satirical asides; comic pratfalls; and gluttony. But the dramaturg adds some unsettling and unusual embellishments to this characterization, invoking tropes of left-handedness as a marker of moral deviance, intensifying the left-handedimagery with allusions to theological notions of Evil, and building the action to a dramatic sequence in which Zurdo commits a rape.
