Fortunas y adversidades de Pedro de Urdemalas, un pícaro dramático

The play Pedro de Urdemalas by Cervantes is conceived as an acute dramatic experimentation with the picaresque subject, which adds from novel to theatre. This article examines this powerful case of intertextuality not only in relation with the rest of cervantine rogues but in dialogue with the model of the «picaresque comedy» of the young Lope, from which Cervantes separates in order to define a sort of dramatic rogue with which he perfectly fusions his reflections about the picaresque subject and his dramatic model.