"Progne y Filomena, una tragedia recuperada de la colección Gondomar"

This work analyzes a manuscript of the National Spanish Library (Ms. 14640) erroneously attributed to Guillén de Castro by Paz and Melia. It is a tragedy in four days entitled Progne Y Filomena which can be dated around the last third of the 16th century, deriving from Conde de Gondomar’s collection of dramatic works, as the notations in the first folio clearly indicate. The tragedy dramatizes the fable narrated by Ovid in the 6th section of his Metamorphoses (424-674) with a clear moral intention. This objective, together with elements of horror in the text, its metrics, its structure and the presence of moral figures, make of it a work clearly belonging to the dramatic landscape of the late 15th century.