La dialéctica alto vs bajo en El perro del hortelano: del decorado verbal de Lope de Vega a la transposición fílmica de Pilar Miró

Pilar Miró shows a great ability in transforming in cinematographic terms the linguistic, social and metaphorical elaboration that Lope de Vega realizes in his play The dog in the Manger about the dialectic high vs low. If the dramatist hardly alludes to specific places where the characters act, she gets right a series of spatial and symbolic solutions, some of them really original, such as the introduction of a dwarf who always accompanies the Countess being her monstrous double. Many of her sequences are able to reflect perfectly in spatial terms the distance that separate Teodoro and Diana until Tristán, with his tricks, finds the way they can consider themselves equal at the end of the play.