Typically, the dialogues involve two characters that, through monologues, debate opposite sides of a moral issue. They are didactic. This work dates from 1470. Love enters the Old Man's hut and tries to convince him to fall in love again by telling him love is beautiful and full of life. The Old Man rebukes love, saying it is a traitor full of unbridled passion, fear, grief, rage and sadness.
Love responds that it makes bad things good and that it can cover up the ugly.
The Old Man finally gives in and Love rejects him saying that he is so old, shriveled, callused and bitter that he was foolish to think he would be good to love. The Old Man ends the work lamenting his lack of reason for trying to be something he is not. Although static, with no action, the debates did frequently involve conflict between two actors impersonating allegorical figures, and thus, may have contributed to the development of drama in the peninsula. An even more important influence might be the Dance of Death, which probably came to Spain from French or Latin sources. The Dance of Death , known in Spanish first as La danza general de la muerte , was popular in the peninsula during the 14 th and 15 th centuries.