El Estudiante de Salamanca was a really difficult play for me, but when I started relating the play back to the themes of Romanticism, it began coming together for me. It all has so much to do with passionate, undying feeling. Every action and feeling in this Romantic play seems to be completely over the top and I think Romanticism is kind of meant to be that way. As soon as I got that concept into my head, it made total sense as to how Elvira died from a broken heart. I also made sense of all the abrupt sounds, like the clashing of swords and the screams around don Felix as he spirals within his "vision" down to hell. Without these effects, there would be no other way of getting the dark feeling Espronceda wants to portray.
Like many others have been saying, I think this play would make a great movie too. There is so much technology in the special effects world that I think someone could make this play into a great movie. It would be fun to see a modern version of such an old play.