«The favourite who was born from his ruin»
Rodrigo Calderón and Robert Devereux in execution ballads and romances de ajusticiados
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Gallows literature, Conde de Essex, Rodrigo Calderón, Robert Devereux, Poetics of the CriminalAbstract
This essay aims to analyze in a comparative way the executions ballads and romances de ajusticiados that told the fallen of Rodrigo Calderón, marquis of Siete Iglesias, and Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, which took place in 1621 and 1601. First, there is a general approach to the lives of both men: their political rise, exercise of power and the causes that provoked their ruin. Second, the article focuses on their punishment and their behaviour on the scaffold, which became at last the symbol of their lives. Finally, it analyzes the broadside ballads and pliegos sueltos that built new portraits of both Essex and Calderón, which lasted for centuries.
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