Resumen de Intermède du porteur d'eau (Agustín Moreto)

Hélène Tropé

• español

  Análisis de un entremés de Moreto que lleva a la escena el castigo de una madrileña perteneciente a las clases populares que quiere elevarse en la escala social mediante un matrimonio ventajoso con un mariscal de Francia. Finalmente, la dama queda defraudada, pues resulta que, una vez casada, descubre que su marido no es el hombre adinerado que creía sino un muy humilde aguador endeudado, cuyas deudas ésta se ve obligada a asumir para su mayor desesperación y castigo de su vanidad

• English

  This article analyzes one of Moreto ́s interludes which deals with the punishment of a popular-class Madrilenian woman who wishes to move up the social ladder by getting married to a French marshal. In the end, the woman is deceived due to the fact that after the wedding she discovers that her husband is not the wealthy man she thought but a humble water carrier burden with debts. Adding to her despair and as a further punishment to her vanity, she is forced to assume his debts