El casamiento engañoso

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El casamiento engañoso is a satirical short story by Miguel de Cervantes that exposes deception and hypocrisy in marriage through the ironic account of a duped husband.

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El casamiento engañoso canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Spanish literary work
satirical work
short story
approximatePublicationCentury 17th century
author Miguel de Cervantes
centralCharacter Campuzano
countryOfOrigin Spain
criticizes materialism in relationships
mercenary marriage
social pretensions
explores illusion and disillusionment
social mobility through marriage
featuresCharacter Estefanía
linked to: Estefania

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firstPublicationCollection Novelas ejemplares
focusesOn a duped husband
marriage as social contract
genre picaresque literature
satire
hasDialogueForm true
hasFrameNarrative true
hasMoralDimension true
hasTheme credulity
trickery
language Spanish
literaryCanonStatus classic of Spanish literature
literaryDevice humor
irony
social critique
literaryForm prose
literaryMovement Spanish Golden Age
mainTheme appearance versus reality
deception in marriage
hypocrisy
narrativePerspective first-person narration
narrator Campuzano
originalTitle El casamiento engañoso
partOf Novelas ejemplares
period Baroque literature
precedesInNarrative El coloquio de los perros
protagonist Campuzano
relatedWork El coloquio de los perros
setting Valladolid
structure frame tale with embedded narrative
targetAudience adult readers
tone ironic
satirical
uses colloquial language

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Novelas ejemplares hasPart El casamiento engañoso
El casamiento engañoso originalTitle El casamiento engañoso