• Overview
• Staging information
• Translations
• Sample translations
• Production history

Scene

The play has about 15 short scenes, which are not marked in the Spanish text. It is longer than a typical one-act play, but shorter than a comedia, and plays straight through uninterrupted like a one-act play.

Staging

This play could be set very simply, as it takes place predominantly in a garden, and the scene changes (the Emperor’s court, Olimba’s house) need not require a drastic change of scenery. A decorated cup for Flerida to drink from, and an apple, are the play’s only necessary props. See Hart’s useful chapter on staging information in his guide to the play (1981).

• Hart, Thomas R. 1981. Gil Vicente: Casandra and Don Duardos. Critical Guides to Spanish Texts 29. London, Grant and Cutler with Tamesis

Cast number

Minimum	Maximum
5 males	9 males
4 females	7 females
9 (total)	16 (total)

Cast information

Jo Clifford's translation pares the play down to only six actors.

Characters

• THE EMPEROR PALMERIN OF CONSTANTINOPLE
• THE EMPRESS OF CONSTANTINOPLE
• DON DUARDOS, Prince of England
• FLERIDA, Daughter of the Emperor of Constantinople
• ARTADA Flerida’s lady-in-waiting
• AMANDRIA, Flerida’s lady-in-waiting
• PRIMALEON, Son of the Emperor, Flerida’s brother
• DON ROBUSTO, A knight
• CAMILOTE, A lesser knight
• MAIMONDA, Camilote’s ugly lady
• OLIMBA, Pagan Princess
• JULIAN, Gardener
• COSTANZA,  The gardener’s wife
• FRANCISCO, The gardeners’ son
• JUAN, The gardeners’ son
• SHIP CAPTAIN

Entry written by Kathleen Jeffs. Last updated on 4 October 2010.

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