Paradigmas y estructuras en las comedias triples del Siglo de Oro

This article analyzes a particular form of the Golden Age Theater: the triple comedies or of triple argument. It is a model that has been very little studied by the critics inside of which, as I tray to prove, can differ two paradigms: the triple comedy stricto sensu, which links three independent stories in a same text; and the tripartite comedy, which shows three steps of the same argument, one by act, and which follows an antique practice valid in the Renaissance Theater. Through the study of some significant examples, I try to justify the differences between both models, in which the poets experiments with the dramatic unities.