Resumen de Roxolana in the Spanish Golden Age
- español
Este trabajo se centra en la figura histórica conocida en el mundo occidental como Roxolana, Roxelana, Rosa Solimana, Rossa o Rosa, la mujer de Suleimán I. La autora bucea su presencia en obras literarias españolas y responde al interrogante de por qué muchos de sus atributos históricos servirán a Lope de Vega para crear un personaje ficcional cuya función en sus obras es de la de ejercer de prototípica mujer del sultán. Cuando dramaturgos posteriores necesiten poner en las tabalas una sultana del siglo XII, se inspirarán en el personaje que creara Lope de Vega en La Santa Liga para representar a la favorita del sultán Selim, usando su nombre y características personales para otra sultana que vivió cuatro siglos antes de Hürrem
- English
This paper focuses on a historical figure known in the Western world by the names of Roxolana, Roxelana, Rosa Solimana, Rossa or Rosa and who was the wife of Ottoman sultan Suleyman I. While trying to find her trace in Spanish literary works, the author also attempts to track down the reasons why her name and many of her features, as attributed to her by historical sources, will serve Lope de Vega to create a fictional character whose role will be to play the part of any sultan’s wife. That is, the historical Roxolana will be outlived by a fictional one in the so-called Spanish Golden Age when a wife for a sultan is needed in a play, and so her name will become synonymous with sultana. When later playwrights needed a character to play the role of a 12th-century sultana they drew inspiration from the character created by Lope de Vega in La Santa Liga to embody Sultan Selim’s favorite lover and did not hesitate to use her name and personal features for the character of another sultana who lived four centuries before Hürrem
