La fealdad masculina en la escritura épico-narrativa de Lope de Vega

[Machine translation] The beauty of Angélica del Fénix offers us a series of suggestive portraits of male deformity that accompany and complement the most abundant vignettes on the topic of ugly women. And since in the underlying paradigm the Polyphemus model is present in all of them, it is understandable that in his old age Lope de Vega gives us the face and the cross of the mythical character, without forgetting that in the medium the Fable of Polyphemus and Galatea de Góngora has been unveiled, which represents a masterful countermodel of epic-narrative poetry. Therefore, the Polyphemus of La Circe, as well as the Marramaquiz-Garfiñanto binomial of La Gatomaquie, are nothing more than Phoenix's sly response to the Gongorino challenge, being a parody and self-parody of a motive, that of male ugliness, that had intrigued the writer from Madrid since his younger years, without imagining that, despite his regret, he would have given rise to the composition of one of the most complex and formal culteran works of auricular letters.