El galán suelto y el figurón en Los Ponces de Barcelona de Lope de Vega

In Los Ponces de Barcelona (1610-15), Court play with urban setting, the dramatic types of the galán suelto and the figurón are elaborated in a very particular way, due to reasons both literary –the epic of love that Lope interweaves in this text, as well as in other dramatic works with urban setting– and political. The playwright, thinking in a performance for a court stage, in order not to mark in a burlesque way the noble don Julio de Aragón, in love with Serafina without hope, prefers to attribute the comic characteristics of the galán suelto to Lucrecia’s burlesque suitors: the squire Marín (proto-figurón) and the gardener Gonzalo (figura del donaire)