Resumen de Terror and Tragic Virtue: A Language of Pain in La doble historia del Doctor Valmy
This article argues that, on the one hand, at the centre of the dramatic structure of La doble historia del Doctor Valmy by Antonio Buero Vallejo there is a power of ideology that functions as a vector of the play’s tragic end. It is a power of ideology that mirrors a socio-political discourse that strategically intertwines terror and virtue in its quest for justice. Consequently justice, which is a political virtue, becomes tragic virtue. On the other hand, it proposes that the play’s ‘poliethical’ (political and ethical) aspect is articulated through a semantic system of meaning that I denominate ‘a language of pain’.
