Tirso de Molina: el dramaturgo en la crisis de la sucesión de 1621

The crisis is the political upheaval that accompanied the ascent of Olivares to power. Its repercussions on the religious and literary career of Fr. Gabriel Téllez/Tirso de Molina are examined. The primary documents analysed include the two passages in Téllez’s Historia de la Orden de la Merced (one from the early 1630s. the other revised towards the end of the decade) containing his hostile criticism of the struggle between the two groups, Lerma’s associates and those of Olivares. This hostility relates to the sentence issued by the Junta de Reformación (1625) and to be meted out as its response to the notorious case of Fr. Gabriel Téllez oka Tirso de Molina, etc. This connection confirms our seeing Tirso as a notable political victim. Yet in the thirties, Tirso’s position is complex. To offset the clear indications of a major if not terminal disruption to his activity as dramatist, the circumstances attendant on the Parte tercera de las comedias (1634) are examined to show how Fr. Gabriel came to the defence of his creation Tirso de Molina, by ensuring his survival in print. The text of the Junta’s sentence informs us of the reason its judges had to silence the dramatist; it concerns his writing plays which are profane and give bad examples. This information invites us to ask to which plays can the harsh sentence of the Junta refer? The reply to this question forms the main theme of the study. It is argued that La venganza de Tamar is a work seriously involved in the turbulent politics of the succession. This argument is preceded by an essential study on the text as authorized by Tirso and subject to the editorial scrutiny of Lucas de Avila. The nexus of images referring to physical hunger that develops into sexual and political hunger is coordinated with the recurring image of the body, presented in a series of progressively morbid pathological states. The human body receives focus in a spectacular way, as a conspicuous object on stage. The climax to the series is the banquet where Amón’s mutilated corpse is both guest and dish, a scene that evokes the Thyestes of Seneca, the tragic example of how a royal house is destroyed by violence from within. The image of the sick body, punctuating the play, stands for the sickness in the body politic. The dynamic of the play consists in moving the audience to see in Tirso’s reconfiguration of the biblical story the pathological condition of the State.Por crisis se refiere al trastorno político que acompañó el ascenso de Olivares al poder. Se examinan las repercusiones en la carrera religiosa y literaria de Fr. Gabriel Téllez/Tirso de Molina. Entre los documentos analizados, figuran las dos versiones de una crítica dura de la transición de valimiento a valimiento que Fr. Gabriel incluye en su Historia de la Orden de la Merced. En relación con la acusada hostilidad expresada por Fr. Gabriel en la Historia, se considera la sentencia recomendada por la Junta de Reformación (1625) para responder al caso notorio de Fr. Gabriel Téllez por otro nombre Tirso de Molina, etc. Para contrapesar la categoría de víctima político que caracteriza a Fr. Gabriel en la década de los treinta, se examinan las circunstancias que atienden a la Tercera parte de comedias (1634) publicada por Tirso, editada por Francisco Lucas de Ávila, considerándola como reivindicación de Tirso de Molina por parte de su autor. El texto de la sentencia emitida por la Junta de Reformación nos informa del motivo que mueve a los jueces a silenciar al dramaturgo; se trata de comedias que escribe profanas y de malos ejemplos, información que nos invita a considerar a qué comedias puede referirse la muy severa sentencia de la Junta. La respuesta forma el tema central del estudio. Se arguye que La venganza de Tamar es una obra seriamente comprometida en la política turbulenta de la sucesión. El argumento va precedido por un estudio esencial del texto autorizado por Tirso y sujeto al escrutinio editorial de Lucas de Avila en la Tercera parte. Se analiza el nexo de imágenes referentes al apetito (hambre, deseo sexual, ambición política), coordinado con la imagen recurrente del cuerpo presentada en una serie progresivamente morbosa de estados patológicos. El cuerpo se enfoca así de modo espectacular; su presencia escénica destaca. El punto culminante es el banquete al que asiste el cadáver de Amón como huésped y manjar, escena modelada en el Tiestes de Séneca, ejemplo trágico por excelencia de la destrucción desde dentro de una casa real. El estudio arguye por la índole conceptuosa de La venganza, como un tipo de agudeza dramática. En el cuerpo enfermo se metaforiza la enfermedad del cuerpo político. La dinámica de la comedia consiste en mover al público a mirar en la reconfiguración de la historia bíblica la condición patológica del Estado

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The Case for Quantum Key Distribution

Quantum key distribution (QKD) promises secure key agreement by using quantum mechanical systems. We argue that QKD will be an important part of future cryptographic infrastructures. It can provide long-term confidentiality for encrypted information without reliance on computational assumptions. Although QKD still requires authentication to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks, it can make use of either information-theoretically secure symmetric key authentication or computationally secure public key authentication: even when using public key authentication, we argue that QKD still offers stronger security than classical key agreement.Comment: 12 pages, 1 figure; to appear in proceedings of QuantumComm 2009 Workshop on Quantum and Classical Information Security; version 2 minor content revision