Panorama general de la base de datos “Relaciones de comedias en la Nueva España, siglos XVI y XVII”

This paper aims to present to desing of the database: “Relación de comedias en la Nueva España, siglos XVI y XVII”. This digital tool aims to deepen the studies of narrative discurse known as relación; in adition, it itends to serve as a repository that will bring together integral relaciones from various Golden plays that have or haven´t a modern edition. On one hand, the paper points out the dramatic strategy’s importance in the Golden theatre; on the other hand, aims to familiarize future users whith the information provided by this digital tool so that they can use it as a potencial instrument for future research. The interest of the article lies in showing that the relación is a dramatic strategy that can be studied as a discursive genre inseparable from the dramatic play to wich is belongs, whose function goes beyond the limits that have been indicated so far.