La renegada de Valladolidromances, canciones y fábulas de cautivos
ISSN: 1698-689X
Year of publication: 2013
Issue: 9
Pages: 212-260
Type: Article
More publications in: Etiópicas: Revista de Letras Renacentistas
Abstract
La Renegada de Valladolid (The captive apostate of Valladolid) is a romance (a ballad) in octosyllabic verses that has been registered in very rare oral versions in Spain and Portugal from the end of the XIXth century until the end of the XXth century. It is related to a chapbook on the same topic, in five-line meter, which had many editions between the XVIth century and the XIXth. And with another chapbook, in four-lines meter, which was often published between the XIXth and the XXth. The article analyzes the relationship between those three textual branches. And it considers the romance inside the genre of romances (ballads) in general and of the genre of ballads of captivity more especifically.